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Ransomware rarely appears out of nowhere. Before encryption, extortion, or data theft begins, attackers often spend time establishing access, stealing credentials, moving laterally, and identifying valuable systems. These activities occur during the ransomware pre-execution phase, when malicious activity may be difficult to distinguish from legitimate administration. For security teams, understan…

A company can have strong firewalls, modern endpoint protection, and carefully controlled access—and still find its brand being used as a weapon against customers, employees, and partners. That is the new reality of digital impersonation. Attackers can register lookalike domains, clone websites, create fake executive profiles, publish fraudulent job advertisements and imitate customer-support acc…

Manual brand impersonation takedowns fail because attackers move faster than ticket-based abuse reports can resolve — phishing pages and fake executive profiles often do their damage within hours of going live, while manual removal can take days. A managed takedown program pairs continuous, verified monitoring with pre-authorized removal (in-certain cases), cutting the exposure window from days t…

The Americas carried the heaviest ransomware burden of any region on the planet in the first half of 2026. According to Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), North and South America combined experienced 2,188 documented ransomware attacks between January and June 2026. That single figure — 2,188 attacks — represents more than 57% of the 3,836 ransomware incidents CRIL tracked worldwide , m…

Ransomware stopped being an isolated incident type in 2025. It became the dominant force behind the modern breach landscape, and the ransomware data breach statistics from Cyble's own tracking make the shift impossible to ignore. For organizations facing this growing threat, having a ransomware incident response plan in place is becoming just as important as preventing an attack in the first plac…

Europe faced a ransomware onslaught in the first half of 2026 that sets a troubling precedent for the remainder of the year. According to Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), the region experienced 866 documented ransomware attacks , 51 confirmed data breach incidents , and 7 initial access sales between January and June 2026. These figures represent not just a volume problem, but a funda…

A single compromised credential is often all it takes to turn an ordinary workday into a full-scale cybersecurity incident. Despite investments in firewalls, endpoint security, and identity controls, attackers continue to exploit one of the simplest yet most effective entry points—stolen usernames and passwords. Whether exposed through phishing campaigns , malware infections, credential-stealing …

Modern organizations no longer operate within a fixed network perimeter. Cloud services, remote work, third-party integrations, and rapid digital expansion have made the boundary between "inside" and "outside" for the enterprise increasingly difficult to define. Attackers exploit this ambiguity by scanning continuously for weaknesses across an organization's hardware, software, cloud, and interne…

You may have heard your peers say, “Cybercrime has become industrialized.” But did you have any proof? We do. Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) closed out its tracking for the first half of 2026 with a deep analysis of the Global Threat Landscape spanning ransomware, initial access brokers, data breaches and leaks, nation-state espionage, and hacktivism, among others. One of the most st…

The dark web is no longer just a hidden marketplace for stolen credentials; it has grown far beyond that point and now affects nearly every phase of the cyberattack lifecycle. Markets that once traded only compromised accounts now also sell ransomware services, initial network access, exploit kits, phishing infrastructure, and even AI-powered attack tools. What used to be a place for selling stol…

The first half of 2026 has given security teams little room to breathe. Ransomware operators kept up a punishing pace. If that wasn’t enough, access brokers turned network intrusions into a marketplace, and nation-state activity blurred further into hacktivism and organized cybercrime. Taken together, the numbers point to a threat landscape that isn't just growing louder; it's becoming faster, mo…

Executive Summary Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs identified an emerging Android malware family tracked as Glitch SPY , distributed through a fraudulent Polish apartment and house rental platform designed to lure users into downloading an Android APK. Based on the Polish-language lure and rental-themed distribution website, the activity appears to be Poland-focused, targeting users in Poland…

Executive Summary The FIFA World Cup 2026 has become more than a global sporting event. It has evolved into a large-scale cybercrime opportunity exploited by threat actors through a coordinated ecosystem of fraudulent domains, social media channels, messaging platforms, pirated streaming services, and dark web activity. Since May 2026, Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has identified ne…

Executive Summary Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has identified an active SEO poisoning campaign exploiting abandoned cloud DNS zone delegations to serve Thai-language gambling content under the domain authority of reputed enterprise organizations. The campaign has compromised 163 organizations across 30+ countries, spanning federal government agencies, national healthcare systems, fin…

The FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off on June 11, and the world's biggest sporting event is drawing more than just fans — it is already attracting a wave of cybercriminals targeting ticket buyers, job seekers, streaming viewers, and corporate brands alike. The FBI has issued a formal Public Service Announcement warning that threat actors are creating fraudulent versions of FIFA-affiliated websites to…

When a senior executive at a Dubai-based energy conglomerate receives a WhatsApp message that appears to come directly from their CEO — complete with the right profile photo, a familiar tone, and an urgent wire transfer request. This type of CEO fraud, CEO impersonation scam, or executive impersonation attack is becoming one of the most effective forms of financial cybercrime targeting Gulf organ…

For most of the digital era, fraud had friction. It required effort, time, and enough technical inconsistency that security systems — or even a careful human — could spot the seams. That assumption no longer holds. Brand impersonation has evolved into a scalable, automated industry powered by generative AI. What used to be isolated phishing attempts has become a distributed ecosystem of cloned id…

Executive Summary Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has identified a novel Android banking trojan, dubbed OverlayPhantom, actively distributed in the wild via malicious URLs. The malware employs a two-stage infection chain, using a dropper application that impersonates trusted platforms, including the official Austrian government identity application, ID Austria, and the widely used con…

Executive Summary Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has identified an active FreePBX exploitation campaign, with high confidence tied to INJ3CTOR3, an actor with a documented history of targeting VoIP infrastructure for financial gain since 2019. The campaign deploys a multi-stage Bash dropper that introduces JOMANGY, a PHP webshell family with no prior public documentation, alongside Zen…

In a digital landscape that moves at the speed of AI, we feel recognition is more than just a market positioning—it is a validation of vision. We are proud to announce that Cyble has been named a Challenger in the first-ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies . For us, being positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in this inaugural report is a testament to our rapid…