Siddhi Green Excellence Pvt. Ltd (India) reported a ransomware incident involving threat actor Orova, impacting its systems and operations in the country. With a long history since 2001—from treatability studies and technical consultancy to expanded environmental services—Siddhi Green faced this disruption as part of the Orova ransomware claim. #India
AuditTeam ransomware claimed to have impacted st***co in Italy by encrypting data and demanding payment for decryption. The attackers’ demand and data theft threat allegedly affected operations in IT #Italy
TEK SPB, a St. Petersburg heat-engineering company (tek-spb.ru), was targeted by the AuditTeam ransomware group, impacting its operations related to design and deployment of heat points and metering units. AuditTeam’s intrusion disrupted TEK SPB’s systems and services within the company’s critical infrastructure, impacting Russia #Russia
Last week’s security news highlighted major breaches, active exploits, and AI-related risks, including incidents at Revolut, CenterPoint Energy, HBO Max, and the first data breach blamed on an autonomous AI agent in Spain. It also covered critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Email Gateway, Cisco ISE, Acronis, Parallels Desktop, and AI coding agents, alongside new guidance and tools from CISA, ENISA, NIST, Google, and Microsoft. #Revolut #CenterPointEnergy #HBOMax #CiscoSecureEmailGateway #CiscoISE #Acronis #ParallelsDesktop #ENISA #CISA #NIST #Google #Microsoft
Researchers uncovered two sandbox escapes in OpenAI Codex, including Heapjack and Overpatch, that could let attacker-controlled code run commands outside Codex’s intended restrictions. OpenAI patched both issues quickly, and users are advised to update to Codex Desktop build 26.818.21641 or Codex CLI 0.149.0 and later. #OpenAICodex #Heapjack #Overpatch #CodexDesktop #CodexCLI
The indexed-btree npm campaign hides malicious code in normal runtime behavior to bypass new GitHub and npm supply chain defenses, while impersonating the legitimate sorted-btree library. Checkmarx found the package and nine related npm packages, which exposed victims to data theft, C2 activity through Slack, Telegram, and an Ethereum smart contract, and possible trace removal by the attackers. #indexed-btree #sorted-btree #Checkmarx #GitHub #npm #Sepolia
Studio Notarile Associato Salvatore Costantino E Anna Favarato, Follina in Italy reported a ransomware incident by the emperador threat actor involving several thousand customer documents and employee data. The case indicates impacts to records across the notary’s office, affecting customers in #Italy
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TOWILL, a U.S.-based geomatics and GIS services provider supporting U.S. federal agencies including the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Defense, reportedly faced a ransomware incident attributed to the threat actor bravox. The attack resulted in disruption of services impacting organizations in the United States. #UnitedStates
Great Bay Bio in Hong Kong reported a ransomware incident attributed to the threat actor nightspire, though the specific impacted data is not available at this time. The attack remains under investigation by the victim, with available information limited. #HongKong
North Korean hackers tied to the WaterPlum campaign stole more than $10.5 million by posing as AI and blockchain recruiters to target job seekers and infect their devices. The operation overlapped with North Korean IT worker schemes and used malware such as BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, OtterCookie, OtterCandy, and StoatWaffle to steal cryptocurrency…
Cassias MG Government in Brazil was targeted by threat actor emperador using ransomware against government credentials and network access, later involving justice panels and sectors such as finance, police, and sensitive records. The data exposure included personal identity and civil documents (e.g., RG/CIN, birth certificates, CPF), along with medical information from Brazil’s SUS, threatening operational continuity under a negotiation deadline! #Brazil
Fanatics, a global sports commerce/e-commerce platform in the United States, reported that threat actor N0n gained destructive control over its cloud data estate, initiating deletion of 46,902 order files (108 GB) containing customer personal data, accounts-payable invoices, customer balances, bank transaction archives, tax exemption certificates, and fraud-prevention datasets. The incident is active with a deadline of 2026-09-23 01:01 UTC, threatening availability and exposure of sports commerce information. #UnitedStates
Daily Recap, TigerByte Cyber emerged from stealth with $3 million in funding, while multiple nation-state and AI-driven advances underscored how fast attackers are operationalizing new techniques. North Korea’s WaterPlum campaign reportedly infected 30,000 devices and used fake job-seeker lures, and research showed AI-assisted exploitation could chain weaknesses to gain access to OpenAI staff accounts. #TigerByteCyber #WaterPlum #TransparentTribe #RustBackdoor #SolarWinds #ARMHardCodedKey #WordPressClick2Shell #Gyazo #Click2Shell #ClaudeOpus5 #Rapuncel #LastPassAuthenticator #ScatteredSpider #AhmedElbadawy #OpenAI
The ransomware claim by shinyhunters threatens the victim with encryption and extortion, demanding payment of “2.333% of my networth” (an eight-figure amount) and urging the victim to email [email protected] to negotiate. The note includes a “clock is ticking” ultimatum and lists the impacted country(s) as: # (unknown)