Marquis, a Texas-based provider of digital marketing, CRM and analytics services for hundreds of financial institutions, disclosed a major security incident tied to a mid‑2025 ransomware attack that ultimately exposed the personal information of more than 672,000 people. The story is less about a single failure and more about how a cascade of weaknesses—an exploited firewall, third‑party exposure, and slow
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Cisco Under Fire: Zero-Day in Secure Firewall Management Center Powers Interlock Ransomware
A critical zero-day vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) — tracked as CVE-2026-20131 — has been exploited in the wild to deploy Interlock ransomware. The timeline and technical details reported by independent researchers make this a clear, urgent warning for organizations running Cisco FMC: an unauthenticated remote exploit can lead to arbitrary Java code execution with root privileges,
When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity
The landscape of cyber threats has shifted decisively toward financially motivated crime. Extortion and ransomware now drive more than half of attacks with known motivations, as opportunistic criminal groups scale operations with automated tooling and AI. Speed, automation, and deception combine to inflict outsized damage on vulnerable organizations and public services. Why extortion and ransomware dominate Ransomware and extortion target