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A Jewish-Israeli music producer said he felt like he experienced his own “personal October 7” when he was kidnapped by a gang in West Wales and held captive. Faiz Shah, 23, from Leeds, Mohammad Comrie, 23, from Bradford, and Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime, 20, from Wallington, were jailed at Swansea Crown Court on Friday. The court heard they had lured Itay Kashti …

The Black Basta ransomware operation created an automated brute-forcing framework dubbed ‘BRUTED’ to breach edge networking devices like firewalls and VPNs. The framework has enabled BlackBasta to streamline initial network access and scale ransomware attacks on vulnerable internet-exposed endpoints. The discovery of BRUTED comes from EclecticIQ researcher Arda Büyükkaya following an in-depth examination of the ransomware gang’s leaked internal chat …

The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks on a victim’s network, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking the encryptor in Windows. Cybersecurity firm S-RM team discovered the unusual attack method during a recent incident response at one of their clients. Notably, Akira only pivoted to the webcam after attempting to …

Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group tracked as Moonstone Sleet has deployed Qilin ransomware payloads in a limited number of recent attacks. “Since late February 2025, Microsoft has observed Moonstone Sleet, a North Korean state actor, deploying Qilin ransomware at a limited number of orgs,” the company’s threat intelligence experts said this week “Moonstone Sleet has previously exclusively deployed their …

The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks on a victim’s network, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking the encryptor in Windows. Cybersecurity firm S-RM team discovered the unusual attack method during a recent incident response at one of their clients. Notably, Akira only pivoted to the webcam after attempting to …

Readers help support Windows Report. We may get a commission if you buy through our links. Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help Windows Report sustain the editorial team. Read more You certainly remember the Black Basta hacker group exploits. Well, according to a new Zscaler security experts report recorded by Bleeping Computer, they discovered links …

Seven Chilean men have been charged with burgling the homes of a number of US sports stars. While the FBI complaint doesn’t name the athletes, it previously listed a number of burglaries involving the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, as well as players for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the NBA’s …

A Manchester Crown Court has sentenced seven gang members for orchestrating a series of kidnappings, violent assaults, and cryptocurrency extortion schemes. Over several months, the group repeatedly targeted one individual, forcing him to transfer substantial amounts of cryptocurrency to their control. The escalating violence culminated in threats, confinement, and severe physical harm before authorities intervened, bringing the perpetrators to justice. …

Ransomware actors targeting ESXi bare metal hypervisors are leveraging SSH tunneling to persist on the system while remaining undetected. VMware ESXi appliances have a critical role in virtualized environments as they can run on a single physical server multiple virtual machines of an organization. They are largely unmonitored and have been a target for hackers looking to access corporate networks …

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said grooming gang perpetrators are “peasants” from “sub-communities” in other countries. She has now met survivors after revealing last week she had not met any while calling for a new national inquiry into the scandal that saw thousands of mainly white girls being abused by men of mainly Pakistani origin. Ms Badenoch said she was …