Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

The FBI thought they shut this all down in 2023, but the duck quacked again Uncle Sam on Thursday unsealed criminal charges and a civil forfeiture case against a Russian national accused of leading the cybercrime ring behind Qakbot, notorious malware that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and helped fuel ransomware attacks costing victims tens of millions of dollars.…

The threat actor known as Cloud Atlas has been observed using a previously undocumented malware called VBCloud as part of its cyber attack campaigns targeting "several dozen users" in 2024

Russian-speaking users have become the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages an open-source phishing toolkit called Gophish to deliver DarkCrystal RAT (aka DCRat) and a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed PowerRAT

Using command-and-control servers from the decade-old Andromeda malware, the group is installing reconnaissance tools and a backdoor on previously infected systems to target Ukrainian victims.

"Cyclops Blink" operation disabled firewalls behind the Sandworm hacking team's network of infected victim devices.