FBI issues Play ransomware warning as attacks multiply. Update, June 7, 2025: This story, originally published on June 5, has been updated with a new FBI warning regarding yet another critical ...

A ransomware gang exploited the critical React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) to gain initial access to corporate networks and deployed the file-encrypting malware less than a minute later.

In an update to a joint advisory with CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the FBI said that the Play ransomware gang had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, three times the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Given that certain ransomware actors are getting a lot of ...

Despite successful operations against ransomware gangs in 2024, ransomware was still the most pervasive threat to critical infrastructure in the US last year, according to the FBI’s latest Internet ...

New AI-powered capabilities in Google Drive aim to block ransomware from spreading after a malicious change to a file is detected. Google unveiled what it’s calling a new approach to combating ...

The cybercriminal group has broadened its attack scope across several new industries, bringing valid credentials to bear on help desks before leveraging its new learnings of cloud intrusion tradecraft ...

The healthcare sector isn’t just under cyber siege, it’s in the middle of a full-blown digital outbreak. Look no further than the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The DBIR ...

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The past year was much quieter than 2024 in ransomware takedown and anti-cybercrime law enforcement operations. Additionally, less organized collectives such as Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and ...