Cloud Atlas activity in the first half of 2025: what changed

Known since 2014, the Cloud Atlas group targets countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Infections occur via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits an old vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Equation Editor process (CVE-2018-0802) to download and Read More …

Threat Landscape of the Building and Construction Sector Part Two: Ransomware

The construction sector is increasingly vulnerable to ransomware attacks in 2025 due to its complex ecosystem and distinctive operational challenges. Construction projects typically involve a web of contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and consultants, collaborating through shared digital platforms and exchanging sensitive Read More …

Threat Landscape of the Building and Construction Sector: IA, Supply Chain, and IoT

In 2025, the construction industry stands at the crossroads of digital transformation and evolving cybersecurity risks, making it a prime target for threat actors. Cyber adversaries, including ransomware operators, organized cybercriminal networks, and state-sponsored APT groups from countries such as Read More …

GOFFEE continues to attack organizations in Russia

GOFFEE is a threat actor that first came to our attention in early 2022. Since then, Kaspersky researchers have observed malicious activities targeting exclusively entities located in the Russian Federation, leveraging spear phishing emails with a malicious attachment. Starting in Read More …

Venture Wolf attempts to disrupt Russian businesses with MetaStealer

BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence has discovered a previously unknown cluster whose activity can be traced back to November 2023. Dubbed Venture Wolf, the cluster employs multiple loaders to deliver MetaStealer to the target systems. The threat actor focuses on a range Read More …

HS2 investigating possible misconduct tied to ‘serious’ data breach

HS2 has launched a formal investigation into allegations of gross misconduct tied to a “serious” data breach earlier in the year, City A.M. understands. Sources allege the incident took place in late May. HS2 Ltd, the company sponsored by the Read More …

North Carolina: Around £2.1 million has been stolen from the housing agency as the US Secret Service is investigating

It is a little-known clothing firm based out of an anonymous residential street in Scotland’s biggest city, with overflowing bags and boxes of rubbish piled up outside its front door. But a Glasgow company is at the centre of a Read More …

Bee-Ware of Trigona, An Emerging Ransomware Strain

Trigona ransomware is a relatively new strain that security researchers first discovered in late October 2022. By analyzing Trigona ransomware binaries and ransom notes obtained from VirusTotal, as well as information from Unit 42 incident response, we determined that Trigona Read More …