Search Results: DataExfiltration

Ransomware profits have plummeted to unprecedented levels with only 23% of breached organizations paying attackers in Q3 2025. This six-year downward trend reflects improved cyber defenses and a strategic shift toward data exfiltration by threat actors. Security teams now face evolved tactics targeting mid-sized businesses through social engineering and software vulnerabilities.

The Crimson Collective hacker group is actively targeting AWS environments, compromising exposed credentials to escalate privileges, exfiltrate sensitive data, and extort victims like Red Hat. Researchers from Rapid7 detail a sophisticated attack flow involving API manipulation and cloud service abuse, underscoring critical vulnerabilities in cloud security practices. This incident highlights the urgent need for organizations to overhaul access management and mitigate risks from leaked secrets.

The UK's Co-operative Group reveals an £80 million ($107M) operating profit loss following an April cyberattack by Scattered Spider affiliates, highlighting catastrophic financial impacts beyond ransomware encryption. With 6.5 million members' data stolen and systems paralyzed for weeks, the incident underscores the escalating cost of modern cyber threats.

Researchers unveil TrojanStego, a novel attack where compromised language models secretly embed sensitive data into seemingly normal outputs using linguistic steganography. Fine-tuned models achieved 97% data leakage accuracy while maintaining output coherence and evading detection, exposing critical vulnerabilities in enterprise LLM deployments.

Louis Vuitton confirms customer data breaches in the UK, South Korea, and Turkey stem from a single cyberattack, suspected to be the work of the ShinyHunters extortion group leveraging third-party vendor access. The incident mirrors recent attacks on sister brands Tiffany & Co. and Dior under the LVMH umbrella.