Cyberattacks involving data extortion reached 6,800 last year, which is nearly 63% higher than in 2024, fueled by the escalated activity of the Qilin, Sp1d3r Hunters, and Clop ransomware operations, reports Cybersecurity Dive.
Major Georgia-based healthcare firm ApolloMD, which has over 125 practices across the U.S., has reported the compromise of 626,540 patients' sensitive information following a cyberattack in May, which was later claimed by the Qilin ransomware operation, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Cybernews reports that more than 6.8 billion unique email addresses were touted by threat actor Adkka72424 to have been included in a 150 GB database posted on BreachForums in early January.
The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee questioned ministers about preventing a repeat of the MoD's accidental exposure of data that endangered Afghan informants.
The current LummaStealer campaigns are heavily reliant on CastleLoader, a modular malware loader that executes payloads in memory with extensive obfuscation.
A researcher known as "Q Continuum" detailed how these extensions, often disguised as harmless tools, request access to sensitive browsing history without clear justification.
Telegram had more than 200 million user records purportedly obtained from a trio of databases exposed in BreachForums on Jan. 24, according to Cybernews.
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