Posts Tagged ‘ransomware’
September 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup
This September 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup covers a month in which ransomware kept disrupting public services and critical infrastructure, while flaws in widely used network appliances created serious exposures of their own. Attacks hit German government and utility networks, and a misconfigured database exposed 220 million Vietnam-linked travel records. Below are the month’s key cyberattacks and…
Read MoreWarlock Ransomware SharePoint Attacks
Warlock ransomware SharePoint attacks have reached a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body and a university, according to Symantec and Carbon Black. The China-linked group still gets in through on-premises SharePoint, switches off endpoint protection on dozens of machines within about two hours, and then launches ransomware from a share that every…
Read MoreDACH Threat Landscape 2026: What SMEs Must Know
A ransomware incident can halt a production line, disrupt a logistics network or leave a clinic scrambling to access essential systems. Across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, those risks are no longer hypothetical. ENISA’s 2025 Threat Landscape report names ransomware as the most disruptive and economically damaging activity in the EU, while hacktivist activity, most of…
Read MoreWatchGuard 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…
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