Dwaine Evans

The shadowy world of cybercrime is undergoing a seismic transformation, moving away from fragmented, competitive gangs toward a highly organized and disciplined structure reminiscent of traditional organized crime. At the forefront of this dangerous evolution is DragonForce, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that emerged in 2023 with a bold and chilling ambition: to build a cybercrime cartel. By imposing a mafia-style

Beyond the headlines of conventional warfare, a persistent and clandestine conflict is unfolding across global networks, where nations deploy sophisticated digital operatives to harvest intelligence and secure geopolitical dominance. This escalating shadow war in cyberspace poses a direct and formidable threat to national security, the integrity of diplomatic relations, and foundational economic stability. Understanding the nuances of these operations is

Law enforcement’s successful dismantling of major cybercriminal infrastructures often triggers an unforeseen evolutionary leap in the malware they target, a phenomenon starkly illustrated by the recent resurgence of the SystemBC botnet. This resilient network of compromised devices did not merely survive a major international takedown effort; it reemerged with a previously undocumented variant written in Perl, specifically engineered to operate

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a stark warning to federal entities following the discovery of active exploitation of a critical remote code execution vulnerability within the widely used SolarWinds Web Help Desk software. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-40551, has been promptly added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, a development that triggers a mandatory and