After seven years of targeting countries in West Asia and Europe, a sophisticated and resilient cyber espionage group, Promethium, has shifted its focus to India, claimed cybersecurity experts.

The encrypted chat platform is alleged by British, French, and Dutch law enforcement agencies to have been used by around 60,000 people, many of whom were allegedly members of organized crime gangs.

The Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware gang claims to have access to 1.2 GB of material on Mariah Carey, 1 GB of material on Nicki Minaj, and 600 MB of material on LeBron James.

The vast majority of past APT15 attacks involved malware designed to infect Windows desktops, but Lookout said the group also developed an arsenal of Android hacking tools.

The BBC claims to have obtained proof of ransom negotiations between the NetWalker gang and the University of California San Francisco.

A report from Kaspersky highlighted a more than 50% surge in cyberattacks targeting the gaming industry around the peak of the lockdown period.

Some of the recent ransomware attacks have shown that threat actors are now adopting persistence mechanisms to maintain access to targeted networks even before deploying a ransomware.

A Russian national has pleaded guilty to corruption charges after being accused of being one of the leaders of a carding ring trading in stolen identities, credit cards, and hacking tools.

As per the latest reports, the group has breached networks of at least 135 companies in 44 countries.

Experts say that the Fxmsp hacking collective went from seeking basic tips on cybercrime forums, to its first sale of access to high-profile targets harvested by its own botnet in only about a year.