A seller is marketing a ‘live’ breach of automated-retail vendor SwyftStore across 28 brands including Pokémon Center. The sample is genuine Zoom/Swyft data, but every record dates from 2016.
Ransomnews Research Team
Ransomnews Research Team
The Ransomnews Research Team is the collective byline used for collaborative pieces, editorial briefings, and articles drawing on contributions from multiple researchers. Coverage spans ransomware operations, breach economics, threat actor profiling, OSINT methodology, and emerging risks across security, privacy, and AI.
A vendor is selling what they call Israel’s current 9.22M-record population registry. Our analysis of the 100k sample says the data is genuine, but every date in it stops in 2005.
Żabka has confirmed unauthorized access through an external provider’s account after a dataset was listed for €5,000. We reviewed the sample; the company has not confirmed its scale.
Forbidden Stories names Morocco as NSO’s client “Morgan”: a 2017 Rabat demo, an Emirati broker, roughly 12,000 targets, and Pegasus traces on seven French ministers’ phones.
Intermittent encryption locks only parts of each file so ransomware runs faster and hides from detection. Here is how partial encryption works and how to catch it.
Ransomware-as-a-service splits ransomware into a rented product and an affiliate workforce. Here is how the RaaS model works and why it made attacks scale in 2026.
BYOVD lets attackers load a legitimate but vulnerable signed driver to kill EDR from the kernel. Here is how it works and why ransomware crews rely on it in 2026.
wp2shell chains a REST batch-route bypass and a SQL injection into pre-auth RCE on WordPress core. WordPress shipped forced auto-updates in 7.0.2, 6.9.5 and 6.8.6.
Clover Health disclosed in a July 17 SEC filing that three employee accounts were compromised via social engineering, risking protected health data.
ShinyHunters listed Fluke (21M Salesforce records claimed) and Ingram Content on its leak site, extending a 2026 Salesforce extortion campaign now drawing class-action lawyers.