The Gentlemen: 90% Affiliate Payouts, Aggressive Growth A ransomware group called The Gentlemen has rapidly become the second most active by victim count, according to recent research from Krebs on Security. Their strategy is simple and effective: offer affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. That’s an aggressive commission structure designed to attract […]
What Happened On June 8, 2026, security researchers at Socket discovered that 19 packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) had been compromised in a supply-chain attack. The affected packages — including popular bioinformatics tools like Dynamo, Spateo, CoolBox, and Napari-UFISH — had been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by developers and data scientists. […]
The Attack: VPN Exploit to Ransomware Deployment A critical zero-day vulnerability in Check Point VPN has been under active exploitation since early May 2026, with Qilin ransomware affiliates blamed for at least one confirmed incident. The flaw allows remote code execution, giving attackers initial access to the network. This is the pattern we see constantly: […]
On June 4, 2026, dental benefits administrator DentaQuest confirmed a breach that exposed sensitive data from 2.6 million customer accounts. The extortion group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, posting 234GB of stolen data publicly after DentaQuest allegedly failed to meet their ransom demands. The exposed data included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, government-issued IDs, health insurance […]