Attackers using the Anubis ransomware, which is developed by a group Symantec tracks as Hawkmoth, deployed a previously undocumented custom backdoor and an unusually large number of security software-disabling tools in an October 2026 attack on an organization in the U.S.
Securonix Threat Research has detailed a Windows-based intrusion framework dubbed TASK#STOMP, which combines VBScript, PowerShell, Task Scheduler and runtime C# compilation to establish persistent access and steal business documents.
A few years ago, during a routine prelaunch review of new connected IoT hardware, our team scanned a batch of brand new, latest model hardware and found a potential bug, which was not uncommon, but also noticed something else.
