The REvil ransomware gang has deposited $1 million in bitcoin in a Russian-speaking hacking forum to prove to potential partners that the business is very profitable and they should consider joining it.

A cybercriminal group has been discovered launching brute-force attacks on thousands of MSSQL servers to deploy a cryptomining malware dubbed MrbMiner in compromised systems.

A Kaspersky report found that during the first half of 2020 the percentage of systems attacked in the oil and gas and building automation industries increased as compared to H2 2019.

A total of 17 Joker-infected apps were removed from Google Play Store. The apps were designed to steal SMS messages, contact lists, device information, and conduct WAP billing fraud.

The Pakistan-linked hacker group, Transparent Tribe, is reportedly behind the attack campaign aimed at stealing critical infrastructure and strategic data via phishing emails, from Indian targets.

ThreatFabric reported a new strain of Android malware called Alien that can steal credentials from 226 apps including Facebook, Gmail, Snapchat, and several popular banking apps.

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.