Posts Tagged ‘ransomware’
WatchGuard Firebox Ransomware Exploitation
WatchGuard Firebox ransomware exploitation is now officially confirmed. CISA updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog entry for CVE-2025-14733 on September 10, 2026, to reflect that ransomware gangs, not just opportunistic access brokers, are actively weaponizing a firewall flaw that has had a public patch available since December 2025. What Happened CVE-2025-14733 is an out-of-bounds write…
Read MoreTerminalFix ClickFix Attack Campaign Hits Germany
A TerminalFix ClickFix attack campaign has compromised a German state institution’s network, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) confirmed on September 4. TerminalFix is an evolution of the ClickFix social-engineering technique: a fake CAPTCHA tricks a user into pasting a command, but instead of the old single-machine Run-dialog trick, it opens Windows Terminal and…
Read MoreBerlin Ransomware Attack: State Refuses to Pay
A Berlin ransomware attack has put Germany’s capital in the position every public-sector CISO dreads: a confirmed data breach, a seven-figure ransom demand, and an election three weeks away. The ransomware group Rhysida claims it stole 5.79 terabytes from Berlin’s state administrative network and is demanding 30 Bitcoin, roughly €2.05 million, with a seven-day auction…
Read MoreIdentity Theft in Germany: What SMEs Need to Know
Germany’s cybercrime problem has a number attached to it: an estimated €202.4 billion in damage to the German economy for the 2025 reporting period, around 4.5 percent of GDP, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office’s (BKA) latest Bundeslagebild Cybercrime report. Behind much of that damage sits a quieter but persistent issue: identity theft in…
Read MoreSME Squeeze: NIS2, AI Act, Ransomware Collide
On January 7, 2026, the ransomware group Akira hit Buhlmann Group, a Hamburg-based steel and metal trading company with roughly 2,000 employees and €428 million in annual revenue. The attackers made off with about 55GB of data — engineering drawings, HR files, financial records — before anyone at the company could respond. Buhlmann wasn’t an…
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