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Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that ...
What the NVD ‘Slowdown’ Means For You: How to Stay Ahead in Vulnerability Management
Flashpoint’s vulnerability intelligence is powered by an independent research team that is constantly on the hunt for the latest vulnerabilities. Although the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) may be experiencing disruptions, it has ...
Iran Calls U.S. Tech Companies ‘Legitimate Targets,’ Threatens to Attack
The Iranian government is threatening to attack the Middle East operations of more than a dozen U.S. tech companies, including Microsoft, Nvidia, and Google, calling them "legitimate targets." Meanwhile, pro-Iranian threat groups ...
Cyberattacks Spike 245% in the Two Weeks After the Start of War With Iran
Akamai researchers saw a 245% spike in cyberattacks in the first two weeks after the start of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran as Iranian nation-state groups and independent hacktivists launch ...
Iranian Hackers Attack U.S. Company Stryker in Escalation of Cyber War
Iranian nation-state group Handala claims it attacked U.S. medical tech giant Stryker, erasing the data from 200,000 corporate servers and mobile devices and stealing 50 TB of data in retaliation for a ...
Navigating 2026’s Converged Threats: Insights from Flashpoint’s Global Threat Intelligence Report
In this post, we preview the critical findings of the 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report, highlighting how the collapse of traditional security silos and the rise of autonomous, machine-speed attacks are forcing ...
Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world's largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control ...
Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?
Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf rapidly grew to infect more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming ...
Why Effective CTEM Must be an Intelligence-Led Program
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a continuous program and operational framework, not a single pre-boxed platform. Flashpoint believes that effective CTEM must be intelligence-led, using curated threat intelligence as the operational ...
A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group
Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang's internal operations. Today, we'll take a closer look ...
