Ransomware Activity Surges in Q1 2025: A Critical Wake-Up Call for North Carolina SMBs Why Q1 2025 Changed the Cybersecurity Landscape The first quarter of 2025 has marked a turning point in the global battle against ransomware. Across industries, geographies, and business sizes, ransomware activity surged at a pace that [...]
NASCAR Data Breach via Medusa Ransomware: A Wake-Up Call for North Carolina Businesses In the world of business, few things are as devastating as a loss of trust. Customers and clients trust you to protect their information, keep transactions secure, and ensure business continuity. But what happens when even iconic [...]
Marks & Spencer Restores Services After DragonForce Attack: A Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call for Global Retail For 15 long weeks, millions of Marks & Spencer customers found themselves locked out of one of Britain’s most trusted shopping lifelines. The culprit wasn’t a warehouse strike or supply chain disruption—it was a ruthless [...]
UK Bans Ransom Payments: A Story of Risk, Resilience, and Reinvention Imagine waking up one morning to find your city council’s entire IT system locked. Emergency services can’t access vital data. Hospitals face delays in treating patients. Schools are unable to retrieve student records. A ransom note flashes across every [...]
$19M Real Estate Phishing Scam in NYC: A Wake-Up Call for the Property Industry Imagine overseeing millions of dollars’ worth of luxury real estate in the heart of New York City. Deals close daily, payments move across digital wires, and trust is placed in every transaction. Then, with a single [...]
New SonicWall VPN Zero-Day Exploited: A Deep Dive Story by a Senior Technical Storyteller “Within minutes, the fortress evaporated, and everything we trusted vanished in a flash.” That’s how one security engineer described what unfolded this summer when a suspected zero-day in SonicWall VPNs exploded into a wave of ransomware [...]
New Cybersecurity Law Now in Effect in New York State Imagine a world where ransomware attacks happen—and governments know immediately. In New York, that world is now a reality. Governor Hochul’s bold and sweeping “new cybersecurity law” has officially taken effect, ushering in a new era of relentless preparedness and [...]
Google Cloud Warns Threat Intelligence Tools Understaffed If your cybersecurity team feels like they’re drowning in a sea of alerts without enough hands to bail water, you’re not alone—and Google Cloud is sounding the alarm. A recent benchmark report from Google Cloud and Forrester reveals that cybersecurity operations worldwide are [...]
What happens when an app billed as a safe haven becomes the most dangerous place to share secrets? Tea App Data Breach Exposes Private Content and Imagery It was meant to be a sanctuary: a women-only dating safety app where users could anonymously review experiences with men, upload ID‑verified selfies, [...]
IIS web servers hit by stealthy web shell attacks Imagine a hidden door in your web server that lives for months—unseen, untouched, until one day it’s used to siphon data, deploy malware, or fully control your system. That’s exactly what’s happening: IIS web servers are being compromised by stealthy web [...]
One Weak Password Dismantles a 158 Year Old UK Transport Firm Imagine a company that survived world wars, industrial revolutions, and decades of change—but fell in hours because one employee used a weak password. That’s exactly what happened to KNP Logistics, a legacy transport firm, when cybercriminals breached their defenses [...]
A Cute Panda Image Just Crashed Your Server: Inside the Story of Koske, the AI-Hidden Linux Malware On the surface, it looked innocent—just a high-resolution photo of a panda munching bamboo. But behind those furry pixels lurked a sophisticated malware strain, custom-built using AI to breach Linux systems, mine cryptocurrency, [...]