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Iran-Linked Password-Spraying Campaign Targets 300+ Israeli Microsoft 365 Organizations

Iran-Linked Password-Spraying Campaign Targets 300+ Israeli Microsoft 365 Organizations

An Iran-nexus threat actor is suspected to be behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments in Israel and the U.A.E. amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The activity, assessed to be ongoing, was carried out in three… 

DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea

DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea

Ravie LakshmananApr 06, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea. The attack… 

Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools

Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools

Ravie LakshmananApr 06, 2026Ransomware / Endpoint Security Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from… 

BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

Ravie LakshmananApr 06, 2026Cybercrime / Financial Crime Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service… 

5 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation

$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation

Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea… 

36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants

36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants

Ravie LakshmananApr 05, 2026Malware / DevSecOps Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation,… 

Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS

Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS

Ravie LakshmananApr 05, 2026Vulnerability / API Security Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has…