Microsoft touted its latest action against malware infrastructure as a new approach aimed at the full cybercrime "supply chain." Europol said more than 300 servers were targeted.

An international operation targeted the SocGholish botnet, which has been linked to the Russia-based cybercrime group Evil Corp.

Cisco released a patch for the vulnerability on Thursday, writing in an advisory that it could “allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system.”

Researchers at Kaspersky said attackers tampered with installers for Daemon Tools — a popular program used to mount disk images as virtual drives — and distributed them through the software’s official website.

Researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET attributed the campaign to APT37 and said the hackers used a backdoor attached to a suite of card games from a company called Sqgame.

Researchers said the group stole up to $12 million in cryptocurrency in the first three months of 2026 through malware attacks on personal devices.

The researchers said the ransomware operation has been ongoing since 2020 and is associated with a strain of malware that enforces execution constraints based on system locale and external IP geolocation.

Microsoft said it has been alarmed to see how effective Medusa actors are, citing multiple cases where the group can move from initial access to data exfiltration and ransomware deployment within 24 hours.

The Meta subsidiary alleges that Italy’s SIO spyware manufacturer designed the phony app specifically for iPhones. Most of the impacted users are in Italy, according to a WhatsApp announcement.