Check Point Research indicated that WIRTE has expanded from espionage to include disruptive attacks. Evidence shows that the malware employed by this group is connected to SameCoin, a wiper malware that has previously affected Israeli entities.

Venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners acquired a majority stake in the Swedish cybersecurity company, Detectify, to combine application security and attack surface management capabilities.

Stream.Security, a Tel Aviv-based cloud security startup led by former Nvidia executive Or Shoshani, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by U.S. Venture Partners.

Socket, a startup founded in 2020 by former Stanford University lecturer Feross Aboukhadijeh, has secured $40 million in Series B funding to focus on open-source security and software bill of materials.

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested over 200 Chinese nationals for overstaying their visitor visas and participating in financial scams targeting victims in Asia. Raids led to the arrest of cybercriminals conducting pig-butchering scams.

Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky, aka "raccoonstealer," pleaded guilty in U.S. court to conspiracy for his role in the Raccoon malware-as-a-service operation, aiding in its infrastructure and code development.

Logpoint, a SIEM company based in Copenhagen, acquired Muninn, an AI-powered NDR startup, to enhance threat detection capabilities. Muninn's AI technology is designed to detect complex attacks in environments where traditional methods fall short.

The group, which has been active since 2020, specializes in data extortion and ransomware attacks. They have targeted at least 20 healthcare entities since 2021 and claim to have stolen patient information.

Email security gaps in gateway defenses have allowed phishing hackers to sneak malware past static scanning functions. Hackers hid malicious attachments by using a decoy file extension in a compressed archive.

This decision comes after a warning from the Singapore Police about phishing scams targeting bank customers. Scammers have managed to defraud individuals of over S$600,000 ($445,000) in just a few weeks.