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A new malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, and Android boxes to build a DDoS network, deliberately evolving to evade security researchers. Combined with GoSerpent’s espionage campaign against Southeast Asian governments and Bitdefender’s survey revealing organizational blind spots, here’s this week’s malware landscape.
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Ransomware victims are paying less, genuinely frustrating extortionists, according to a new industry roundup. The same week, 23andMe agreed to an $18 million breach settlement, a 13-year-old was found to have deployed Daixin ransomware, and attackers used reverse-SOCK proxies with disguised payloads. Here’s this week’s ransomware landscape.
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CISA set a July 19 federal deadline for a critical SharePoint remote code execution flaw as identity attacks officially overtook exploits as the top ransomware cause. Combined with Ernst & Young’s breach through a compromised support ticket system and Bruce Schneier’s warning on frontier AI access restrictions, here’s this week’s cybersecurity landscape.
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