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New Campaign Weaponizes Microsoft Teams for Remote Access

Unlike standard commodity malware that aims for quick credential theft, this campaign features a manual, hands-on-keyboard scheme designed to escalate rapidly from a single compromised workstation to broad, network-wide access.

DENNIS FISHER · SEP 3 · 2 min
Ransomware

Marks and Spencer’s Profit Drop: The Financial Toll of Cyberattacks

The financial impacts of cyberattacks are hard to measure – but they lend critical context to conversations around security risk at the boardroom level.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 5 min
Ransomware

Akira Ransomware Actors Target SonicWall SSLVPN

This aggressive approach aligns with Akira’s historical tactics of exploiting VPN infrastructure as an initial access vector.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Malware

Three Takeaways From the EU Airport Outages

The incident is a pointed example of how an intrusion at a key point in the software supply chain can have a wide range of downstream effects.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Microsoft

Senator Flags Microsoft’s Role in the Ascension Ransomware Hack

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants the U.S. government to hold Microsoft responsible “for contributing to ransomware attacks against critical U.S. infrastructure” like Ascension.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 2 min
Ransomware

Attacks Hit Possible SonicWall Zero Day

Attackers are exploiting a likely zero day vulnerability in some versions of SonicWall Firewall devices with the SSL VPN functionality enabled, and in some cases are able to bypass MFA protections.  The intrusions have been ongoing since at least the end of last week, and researchers have observed some attackers deploying the Akira ransomware after…

Dennis Fisher · 2 min

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