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AI Security

When your AI helper has admin rights: the new ransomware fast lane

Enterprise AI assistants with over-broad permissions can turn a routine break-in into a company-wide ransomware event in minutes, Acronis warns.

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Ransomware

Anubis Ransomware Group Claims Fairlife Attack, Threatens to Leak 1 TB of Data

Coca-Cola's milk brand has a week to pay an undisclosed ransom, or criminals say they will publish what they took.

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Ransomware

DragonForce Claims Attack on One Community FCU, Alleges Member Data Stolen

A ransomware group has listed a US credit union on its dark-web site, claiming to hold internal files and member financial records. The credit union has not confirmed any incident.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Attacks Rose 25% in a Year. Artificial Intelligence Isn't the Main Driver.

A new report tracked 7,551 victims worldwide between April 2025 and March 2026. The growth came from more criminal groups, weaker targets, and supply-chain shortcuts, not fancy AI tools.

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Ransomware

Qilin Ransomware Crews Break In Through Palo Alto Firewall Flaw

Arctic Wolf Labs says attackers used CVE-2026-0257, a now-patched authentication bypass in PAN-OS, to get inside networks before deploying Qilin ransomware in June 2026.

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Ransomware

Qilin ransomware crew is breaking into Palo Alto VPNs through an unpatched flaw

Arctic Wolf says multiple Qilin affiliates are exploiting CVE-2026-0257 in Palo Alto Networks firewalls to encrypt whole networks. Over 167,000 VPN instances remain exposed online.

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Ransomware

ENCFORGE: The Ransomware That Goes After AI Brains, Not Your Spreadsheets

Sysdig says the same crew that broke into a Langflow server earlier this month is back, and this time it encrypts model weights instead of office files.

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Ransomware

AI-hunting ransomware 'EncForge' locks up model files as JadePuffer agent adapts on the fly

The autonomous attacker rewrote its own delivery script six times in five minutes before encrypting a Langflow server's machine-learning assets.

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Vulnerabilities

Ransomware Gang Exploited Two SonicWall Security Flaws Before a Fix Existed

A group tied to Inc ransomware broke into enterprise networks through a pair of critical holes in SonicWall remote-access devices, stealing credentials and preparing to lock down files.

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Threat Intelligence

Ransomware Hits Naval Contractor, Lidl Discloses Data Breach, and Iran Tracks US Military Phones

A week of scattered but serious disclosures: a defence shipbuilder confirms a ransomware attack, a major supermarket chain notifies customers of stolen data, and new evidence suggests Iranian operatives tracked phones belonging to US military personnel.

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Ransomware

Armenia Grabs Russian Tourist at Yerevan Airport on U.S. REvil Warrant

Aleksandr Ermakov has sat in an Armenian detention center since June 28. His lawyers say the FBI has the wrong man.

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Breaches

Cyberattack Hits Nichirei, Japan's Frozen Food Giant, Putting Personal Data at Risk

A July 13 attack knocked out warehouses and shipping lines across Japan. Nichirei says personal information may have been stolen, and a regulator report has already been filed.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Attack Halts Fairlife Milk Production Across the US

Coca-Cola told the SEC that hackers broke into its Fairlife dairy subsidiary, forcing the company to stop making protein shakes and ultra-filtered milk at its American plants.

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Threat Intelligence

This Week's Cyber Mess: Fake Repos, Chrome Sync Stalking and a Ransomware Crew That Moves in a Day

A roundup of the week's smaller stories that share one uncomfortable theme: attacks that succeed because something looked close enough to trust.

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Threat Intelligence

Two Scattered Spider Members Jailed in UK's Largest Ever Cybercrime Prosecution

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers each received five and a half years in prison for a 2024 attack on Transport for London that cost the city £29 million.

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