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Weekly Report: New Hacking Techniques and Critical CVEs: June 24-30, 2025

The final week of June 2025 witnessed an unprecedented escalation in sophisticated cyber warfare, with critical infrastructure bearing the brunt of state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially motivated ransomware operations. This period was marked by the convergence of traditional cybercrime tactics with cutting-edge AI-powered attack vectors, presenting a complex threat landscape that challenges conventional security paradigms.… Read More »Weekly Report: New Hacking Techniques and Critical CVEs: June 24-30, 2025

Weekly Cybersecurity Breach Report: June 19–25, 2025

This week’s landscape was dominated by sophisticated espionage and ransomware campaigns spanning telecommunications, insurance, finance, supply chain, critical infrastructure, and software supply chains. State-sponsored and criminal threat actors alike leveraged zero-day exploits, social engineering, code-signing abuse, and destructive malware to breach high-value targets. Key incidents include the Salt Typhoon compromise of Cisco infrastructure, Scattered Spider’s… Read More »Weekly Cybersecurity Breach Report: June 19–25, 2025

FireCompass Secures USPTO Patent for Automated Red Teaming

FireCompass Secures USPTO Patent for Automated Red Teaming

FireCompass has recently secured a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for their innovative approach to Automated Red Teaming in Organizational Networks. This milestone is set to reshape the landscape of cybersecurity, particularly in the realms of Automated Pen testing and Red Teaming. The minds behind this revolutionary technology are Arnab… Read More »FireCompass Secures USPTO Patent for Automated Red Teaming

Ransomware Case Study, Negotiating with Hackers: Unconventional Tactics

Ransomware Case Study, Negotiating with Hackers: Unconventional Tactics

In a recent panel discussion on the “Ransomware Case Study,” cybersecurity expert Bikash Barai shared compelling insights into his advisory experience, shedding light on his active involvement in negotiating ransomware with hackers and threat actors. This discussion, featuring Bikash Barai (Co-Founder, FireCompass), Kinshuk De (Head Incident Response, TCS), Venkat Ramshet (Founder, Flexible IR) and Ashwani Paliwal (Founder, SecOps),… Read More »Ransomware Case Study, Negotiating with Hackers: Unconventional Tactics

Ransomware Blog 2023 Firecompass

Achieve 26% Ransomware Risk Reduction By Fixing These CVEs

As per Threat Intel data published by IBM Xforce, 80% of the times, Ransomeware gets initial access using top 3 Attack Vectors – exploiting vulnerabilities contribute 26%, Shadow IT & Stolen Credentials contribute 16%, various variants of phishing attacks contribute 41%, and the rest by other attack vectors. It means that Shadow IT Discovery, identifying… Read More »Achieve 26% Ransomware Risk Reduction By Fixing These CVEs