cybercriminals

In Q4 2024, cyber threats reached unprecedented levels, with 2.55 billion attacks blocked, equating to 321 threats every second. In this Help Net Security video, Luis Corrons, …

Two Estonian nationals may spend the next 20 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars through a massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, the US Department of …

The Thai police has arrested four individuals suspected of being the leaders of the 8Base ransomware group and of stealing approximately $16 million from 1,000+ victims they …

XE Group, a cybercriminal outfit that has been active for over a decade, has been quietly exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-25181, CVE-2024-57968) in VeraCore …

In this Help Net Security interview, Tomer Shloman, Sr. Security Researcher at Trellix, talks about attack attribution, outlines solutions for recognizing hybrid threats, and …

A threat actor has leaked configuration files (aka configs) for over 15,000 Fortinet Fortigate firewalls and associated admin and user credentials. The collection has been …

As we look ahead to cybersecurity developments in 2025, there’s bad news and good—expect to see new challenging attacks and the cybersecurity community increasingly working …

In this Help Net Security interview, Vineet Chaku, President of Reaktr.ai, discusses how AI is transforming cybersecurity, particularly in anomaly detection and threat …

In this Help Net Security interview, Gavin Reid, CISO at HUMAN Security, talks about the latest cybersecurity threats and how attackers are becoming more sophisticated. He …

The US Department of Justice has unsealed charges against Rostislav Panev, 51, a dual Russian and Israeli national, suspected of being a developer for the LockBit ransomware …

In this Help Net Security interview, Jason Passwaters, CEO of Intel 471, discusses how integrating cybercrime intelligence into an organization’s security strategy enables …

A 30-year old Romanian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for leveraging the Netwalker ransomware to extort money from victims, the US Department of Justice announced on …