All news with #threat report tag

🔍 Check Point Research reports that global cyber-attack volumes slightly eased in May 2026, averaging 2,055 weekly attacks per organization, a 2% year‑over‑year increase but a 7% month‑over‑month decline. While overall volumes moderated, ransomware rose sharply—698 incidents, a 48% increase year‑over‑year—and GenAI-related data exposure risks expanded as enterprises adopted more tools without adequate governance. The report highlights shifting sector targets and regional variations.

🔒 The 2026 Fortinet State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report examines how OT security has moved to board-level attention as connectivity increases risk. Based on a global survey of over 700 OT professionals, the report finds improved visibility and governance but uneven maturity across organizations. Key gaps remain in segmentation, secure remote access, incident response, and regulation readiness.

🛡️ Volexity researchers attribute prolonged intrusions to the Chinese espionage group UNC5221 (aka VerdantBamboo), which used the Brickstorm backdoor plus previously undocumented malware Plenet and AgentPSD to maintain access. The actor compromised an MSP and victim systems, remaining undetected for at least 18 months and returning after remediation. Plenet is a cross-platform .NET backdoor; AgentPSD is a Python reverse shell used as fallback persistence.

🔍 Analysis by Halcyon shows a rapid rise in AI-based tools sold across Telegram channels, dark web forums, and underground markets, with posts increasing from 38 in December 2025 to 1,486 by February 2026. The offerings fall into four groups: weaponized LLMs, AI-enabled identity fraud, AI-augmented malware/infrastructure, and jailbroken or stolen AI services. Ransomware operations are professionalising with tiered services, automation and freemium models, lowering the skill barrier for new actors while law enforcement takedowns and better enterprise defenses remain critical.

🛡️ Check Point Research and Exposure Management tracked a year-long rise in coordinated cyber threats aimed at FIFA World Cup 2026. Attackers have pre-positioned infrastructure across finance, travel and hospitality, and gambling, with active domains, fake apps, and social schemes ready to scale. The report highlights escalating fraud, domain impersonation, mobile-app impersonation, B2B spoofing risks, and potential operational impacts like ransomware and DDoS.

🛡️ FortiGuard Labs warns that cybercriminals are actively exploiting FIFA World Cup 2026 demand, registering thousands of themed domains and creating fake ticketing sites, malicious apps, and impersonation accounts to steal credentials and payments. Their research found over 13,000 new tournament-related domains and identified numerous scams across social media, underground forums, and stealer telemetry. Organizations and fans are urged to prepare early and verify official channels.

🔍 French and Spanish authorities dismantled an online marketplace selling counterfeit identity documents used by migrant smuggling rings across the EU. On May 27, police arrested a suspect in Alicante and seized document-production equipment and about 800 fake European IDs from an apartment rented under a false name. Europol said the platform provided forged physical and digital documents to facilitate border evasion, fraudulent residence claims, and secondary movements within the Schengen Area.

🔍 Halcyon research reveals a dramatic rise in AI-powered cybercrime tooling across underground markets, jumping from 38 mentions in December to 1,486 in February. Cynthia Kaiser, SVP of Halcyon’s Ransomware Research Center, detailed four product categories: weaponized LLMs, AI-enabled identity fraud, AI-augmented malware/infrastructure, and jailbroken or stolen AI services. She warned that automated distribution, freemium models and redundant channels have lowered the financial barrier to entry and increased resilience against takedown efforts.

🛡️ McAfee Labs reports a MaaS campaign called Weedhack that has been active since January 2026, using SEO poisoning and YouTube videos to trick Minecraft users into downloading malicious JAR files. The malware chain begins with a trojanized client and leverages the Ethereum blockchain for C2 resolution, ultimately delivering remote access and information-stealing payloads. The service is offered free and as a paid tier, enabling widespread abuse, account theft, and cyberbullying against younger victims.

🔍 New research from ManageEngine reveals UK IT and business leaders view AI-powered cyber-attacks as their top risk over the next 12 months, with 43% identifying it as the single biggest threat. The survey of 1,500 decision-makers across five European markets shows 41% of UK respondents plan to prioritise spending on tackling AI and advanced threats. Despite strong detection rates, UK organisations report increasing incidents, skills gaps and recovery challenges, alongside rising investment in resilience and governance.

🔔 This week's briefing highlights active exploitation of a PAN-OS GlobalProtect authentication bypass (CVE-2026-0257), a critical unauthenticated RCE in Gogs, and the coordinated takedown of GlassWorm C2 infrastructure. Other notable items include a long-standing Linux LPE (CIFSwitch) patched upstream, CERT-In urging rapid patching timelines, and several AI-enabled and supply-chain aided campaigns increasing attacker speed and reach.

🔍 DDoS attacks are increasingly packaged and sold as polished online services, lowering barriers for would-be attackers and reshaping the underground market. Flare researchers compared DDoS-related underground activity from early 2023 and early 2026, finding a marked rise in service ads, actors, and professionalized offerings. Ads now emphasize panels, APIs, botnet backing, pricing tiers, and reseller programs, while public mitigations report multi-terabit attacks. The market’s shift toward productized services means defenders must assume easier access to disruptive capabilities.

📰 This ThreatsDay roundup highlights widespread C2 infrastructure, supply-chain trojanization, exploitation trends, and emerging AI security features. It covers a large regional C2 footprint in the Middle East, an AKS privilege escalation fix, a DAEMON Tools supply-chain compromise added to CISA's KEV, and Apple’s PQC code disclosures. The bulletin also details law firm targeting by SRG, fake installers spreading a Deno RAT, PureLogs phishing, and a spike in DACH cyberattacks.

📄 ESET summarizes notable APT activity observed between October 2025 and March 2026, highlighting China-, Iran-, North Korea-, and Russia-aligned operations alongside unattributed clusters. The report illustrates geopolitical drivers behind campaigns, describes new tooling and supply-chain compromises such as a trojanized axios package, and notes destructive incidents impacting critical infrastructure. ESET confirms protections by its products and notes the report reflects a subset of its Threat Intelligence.

🔍 This Unit 42 report examines the growing shift from ransomware encryption to data-theft and extortion-only attacks, profiling threat actors, techniques, and sectors most affected. It highlights drivers such as improved backups, faster exfiltration, and regulatory pressures that make disclosure risk financially coercive. The briefing also warns of AI-accelerated attacks and offers prioritized defensive recommendations for DLP, SaaS posture, identity resilience, supply chain integrity, and AI preparedness.

📰 The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report has been published, offering a range of statistics and findings on cybercrime trends. The author notes they only recently became aware of the report and references associated press releases and news articles. The post, dated May 27, 2026, points readers to additional coverage and commentary on the report's contents.

🚨 A Bitdefender report warns that cybercriminals have built extensive ecosystems to scam Formula 1 fans, exploiting the sport’s fast-moving digital culture. Scams include counterfeit merchandise, fake grand prix tickets, illegal streaming apps and boxes, social media fraud and distribution of infostealer malware. Fans may also be coerced into botnets for DDoS attacks. Bitdefender urges vigilance and recommends anti-phishing and antivirus tools to reduce risk.

🛡️ Check Point Research’s March–April 2026 Threat Landscape Digest documents that AI-powered attacks have moved from experimental and state-sponsored exercises into routine criminal deployment. The report details a campaign in Mexico where a single operator used commercial AI to compromise nine government agencies, leveraging persistent jailbreaks, weaponized agent configuration files, and commodified attack platforms like EvilTokens. It warns that stolen AI provider keys, rapid exploit timelines, and shadow AI use create urgent operational and supply-chain risks for organizations.

🛡️ This week's ThreatsDay bulletin highlights a string of notable cybersecurity developments, from 47 zero-day exploits revealed at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 to active Linux rootkit evolution. It summarizes warnings about agentic AI, targeted intrusions using AI agents, and advisories on token and dependency leaks. The report also covers nation-state tensions, ransomware activity, encrypted communications, and campaigns abusing identity recovery flows.

🔍 Verizon's latest DBIR reports that vulnerability exploitation has become the top initial access vector, accounting for 31% of breaches compared with 13% for credential abuse. The study links this shift to slower patching—only 26% of CISA KEV critical flaws were fully remediated—and a larger backlog of critical vulnerabilities. It also warns that threat actors may be using AI to scale discovery and exploitation, and highlights rising supply-chain incidents, increased shadow AI adoption, and persistent human-factor risks.