A new ransomware strain called Mount Locker, which began making the rounds in July 2020, was spotted demanding multimillion-dollar ransom payments from victims to recover their data.

A data breach at Town Sports International affected almost a terabyte of sensitive customer data. In another incident, ArbiterSports paid off hackers to delete the stolen details of 540,000 referees.

In a recent report, Neustar revealed that H1 2020 saw a 151% rise in the number of DDoS attacks compared to the same period in 2019, with the longest 1.17Tbps attack lasting over 5 days.

Days after security analysts sounded the alarm over Zerologon, Microsoft said hacking groups are using the privilege escalation vulnerability against Windows server operating systems in the wild.

The CISA is warning about LokiBot malware that targets Windows and Android endpoints and spreads mainly through email but also via malicious websites, texts, and messaging services.

Germany's national cybersecurity agency was called to investigate a ransomware outage and help get the hospital get back online after a person in a life-threatening condition passed away.

In H1 2020, Group-IB found that 43% of malicious emails had spyware as attachments or links that led to their download. Ransomware had a share of less than 1% among the malicious emails.

Cisco published a report based on MITRE ATT&CK classifications combined with IoCs revealing fileless threats as the most common attack vector used against enterprises over the first half of 2020.

Over the past few years, the increasing number of mercenary groups that exhibit hacker-for-hire services has become a trend driven by the public release and commoditization of APT-like TTPs.

A six-year-long Iranian cyberespionage campaign was unraveled, which targeted Iranian dissidents and expats to steal KeePass and Telegram information using Windows infostealers.