In 2025, hackers linked to North Korea stole a record-breaking two billion dollars in cryptocurrency—51% more than the previous year. Notably, the number of attacks declined even as the damage escalated. According to Chainalysis,...
Groups operating in the interests of the DPRK continue to aggressively expand their infrastructure for cyber espionage, financial attacks, and long-term persistence within compromised systems. This is evidenced by the findings of a joint...
The leak of a fourth episode linked to the APT35 hacking group—also known as Charming Kitten—dramatically reshapes perceptions of the organization. In the previous three installments, meticulously analyzed by researcher Nariman Gharib, attention centered...
Researchers at Check Point Research have uncovered a large-scale espionage operation conducted by the Chinese APT group Ink Dragon, which repurposes compromised government servers into a distributed command-and-traffic relay network—effectively turning the victims themselves...
Japanese company Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has reported observing a new variant of the malware known as Type 1 Backdoor, which is attributed to the cyber-espionage group DRBControl. Analysis indicates that the attacks employ...
One of the year’s most anticipated films starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Battle After Battle, has yet to reach official online distribution, yet it has already become a lure for malware. Ahead of its release on...
The Unit 42 team at Palo Alto Networks has documented a prolonged and low-visibility campaign targeting government bodies and diplomatic organizations across the Middle East. The activity is attributed to the Ashen Lepus group,...
The United Kingdom has announced sanctions against two Chinese technology companies, accusing them of reckless and indiscriminate cyberattacks targeting the UK and its allies. The measures apply to Sichuan Anxun Information Technology Co. Ltd—better...
APT-C-53 has once again intensified its distribution of malicious attachments targeting organizations in Ukraine. The latest wave of attacks demonstrates that the group continues to refine its stealth-penetration toolkit and to update its initial-access...
The Iranian threat group MuddyWater has intensified its cyber-espionage operations with the deployment of a new malicious program known as UDPGangster. According to Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, the attacks targeted Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan. The...