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Five ransomware gangs dominated the landscape in 2024 – here’s how to keep them at bay.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that former Aviation Industry Corporation of China employee Song Wu has been indicted with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft due to his alleged spear-phishing campaigns against the several U.S. government agencies.

While more than 80% of entities expect intrusions — particularly phishing, data theft, and zero-day malware attacks, to hold steady or increase over the next year — more than half of respondents continue to believe the non-malicious nature of email messages and attachments by default.

Such an intrusion, which has been conducted alongside Ukrainian hacking group BO Team, resulted not only in the defacement of Osnovanie's website but also the destruction of sensitive server-stored data and a database with 1.5 million electronic digital signatures, said the HUR.

Despite lacking U.S. port permissions, such cellular modems had been installed on port cranes' Linux computers, enabling data gathering and firewall evasion.