LockBit is a prolific ransomware-as-a-service operation known for extortion attacks on businesses worldwide, despite repeated law enforcement takedowns.
Leaked chats reviewed by Recorded Future News show the Silent Ransom Group directing US-based recruits it calls 'agents' into law firm offices. For firms holding client data, an intrusion can start at reception with someone posing as a courier or an IT worker.
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The Toronto hospital says the flaw sits in software used by other organizations too. It has not said which software, which leaves those organizations nothing to act on.
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The bank says its own systems are clean and points at a contractor of a contractor it will not name. That is precisely where most vendor-risk programs stop looking.
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Kaspersky's responders found no encrypted files and no malware on disk across the Windows estate of a Middle East manufacturer in April 2026. The impact arrived through one Group Policy Object linked at the domain root.
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Cisco Talos's tally of Japanese ransomware for January to July 2026 hands the country lead to The Gentlemen, a crew that was not in last year's data and that listed 105 victims worldwide in July alone.
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Brain Cipher paralysed more than 230 Indonesian government services in June 2024 with under 2 percent of the data backed up. The AWS reference rebuild published on dev.to depends on two locks you cannot switch off later.
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A crew that started with leaked Babuk and LockBit builders now ships a versioned agent whose command channel sits on a shared MQTT broker and whose config will not decrypt anywhere but the machine it infected.
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Comparitech's half-year tally shows government ransomware growing again, with the newest crew on the board, The Gentlemen, out-filing Qilin and spreading its targeting well beyond the United States.
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PaperCut shipped emergency fixes for CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 on Thursday and Friday, and by the weekend Defused was watching honeypot intruders bypass authentication and read database tables instead of running code.
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The National Cybersecurity Plan 2025-2030 loads its operational machinery into a single legislative year. Firms operating in Mexico should budget for weak state incident response until it lands.
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Cynthia Kaiser says infrastructure operations have pushed some crews off US targets entirely. The numbers are the bureau's own, but the cadence is something defenders can plan around.
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Intel 471 says sanctions thinned the top tier of criminal hosting and upstarts filled the gap. The practical effect is that each takedown and each ASN block now covers less of the market.
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