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Updates from Acronis Threat Research Unit

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Threat actors go gaming: Electron-based stealers in disguise
The Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a new malware campaign involving Leet Stealer, RMC Stealer (a modified version of Leet Stealer) and Sniffer Stealer.
Insights
05 August 2025 — 4 min read
Acronis
MSP cybersecurity news digest, July 29, 2025
Benign-appearing panda images used by new Koske Linux malware to deliver malicious code, Turkish...
04 August 2025 — 19 min read
MSPs a top target for Akira and Lynx ransomware
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) analyzed recent samples of Akira and Lynx ransomware families to...
24 July 2025 — 4 min read
MSP cybersecurity news digest, July 14, 2025
SafePay inflicts major ransomware attack on Ingram Micro, Oyster malware loader spread through SEO...
16 July 2025 — 4 min read
MSP cybersecurity news digest, July 7, 2025
Zurich nonprofit Radix hit by Sarcoma ramsomware group, resulting in theft of 1.3TB of data, Google...
14 July 2025 — 3 min read
Acronis Cyberthreats Update, July 2025
The Acronis Cyberthreats Update covers current cyberthreat activity and trends, as observed by Acronis...
30 June 2025 — 4 min read
MSP cybersecurity news digest, June 30, 2025
ConnectWise ScreenConnect installer exploited by authenticode stuffing technique, attackers breach...
23 June 2025 — 4 min read
MSP cybersecurity news digest, June 18, 2025
Zero-day flaw and 66 vulnerabilities addressed in Microsoft’s June 2025 Patch Tuesday, Malware...
17 June 2025 — 4 min read
MSP cybersecurity news digest, June 9, 2025
FBI reports 900 organizations in the Americas and Europe hit by Play ransomware since October 2023,...
11 June 2025 — 3 min read
MSP cybersecurity news digest, June 3, 2025
Vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp RMM tool exploited by DragonForce ransomware, FBI issues warning about...

Trends and analysis

22 July 2022 — 12 min read
Acronis
CloudMensis: a new macOS threat
In April 2022, ESET researchers found a yet-unknown backdoor on macOS. It was named CloudMensis due to...
30 June 2022 — 8 min read
Acronis
Details about ZingoStealer: The new, free...
On March 18, 2022, the Telegram public group published a post detailing the release of a new version...
28 June 2022 — 7 min read
Acronis
Important details About BlackCat: The new version of the...
On March 16, 2022, security specialists identified a new version of BlackCat ransomware (so named...
22 April 2022 — 14 min read
Acronis
HermeticWiper and HermeticRansom delivered via Active...
On February 23, 2022, a new data wiper and ransomware were deployed on a large number of devices in...
16 March 2022 — 9 min read
Acronis
WhisperGate malware targets Ukrainian government sites
Multiple government sites in Ukraine were shut down on January 13, 2022, the result of a large-scale...
13 December 2021 — 4 min read
Acronis
Critical Apache Log4j vulnerability discovered — here's...
Late last week, a critical zero-day vulnerability in the popular Java logging library Log4j surfaced...