January 5, 2026, Seattle, USA — ZAST.AI announced the completion of a $6 million Pre-A funding round. This investment came from the well-known investment firm Hillhouse Capital, bringing ZAST.AI’s total funding close to $10 million. This marks a recognition from leading capital markets of a new solution: ending the era of high false positive rates…
SmarterTools confirmed last week that the Warlock (aka Storm-2603) ransomware gang breached its network by exploiting an unpatched SmarterMail instance. The incident took place on January 29, 2026, when a mail server that was not updated to the latest version was compromised, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer, Derek Curtis, said. “Prior to the breach, we…
The Netherlands’ Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) and the Council for the Judiciary confirmed both agencies (Rvdr) have disclosed that their systems were impacted by cyber attacks that exploited the recently disclosed security flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), according to a notice sent to the country’s parliament on Friday. “On January 29, the…
Fortinet has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting FortiClientEMS that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21643, has a CVSS rating of 9.1 out of a maximum of 10.0. “An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’) vulnerability…
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This issue of the Counter Threat Unit’s high-level bimonthly report discusses noteworthy updates in the threat landscape during September and October Categories: Threat Research Tags: EDR killer, infostealer, Ransomware
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The acquisition allows the credit reporting agency to add SMS spam and scam prevention to its robocall blocking capabilities.
The ransomware group breached SmarterTools through a vulnerability in the company’s own SmarterMail product.
The threat actor has been compromising cloud environments at scale with automated worm-like attacks on exposed services and interfaces.