The logo of Apollo Global Management is displayed on a smartphone in front of abstract background. (Photo Illustration by Timon Schneider/Getty Images)
The private equity firm said attackers broke into some of its cloud platforms during a five-day period in early July, compromising sensitive personal data.
BlackFile’s four affiliate groups are still targeting victims, including medical technology organizations. Several potential victims received new extortion demands last week, according to Google.
The threat group’s remarkable success targeting open-source software was inevitable and fueled by the industry’s decision to prioritize code shipping over security.
The revelation mirrors an alarming pattern of Chinese espionage groups dropping backdoors into critical infrastructure to intercept research and steal data with national security implications.
Outsider provided phishing kits and infrastructure for cybercriminals to scam victims with lures claiming they missed packages, had unpaid tolls or parking violations.
The Polymarket prediction market platform logo appears on a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which a list of available bets is projected, on March 9, 2026. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed multiple trades on the prediction marketplace, abusing internal access to Google’s nonpublic data on the most searched people in 2025.
CrowdStrike has dismantled the Glassworm botnet in an operation aided by Google and Shadowserver, stripping the operators’ access to infrastructure that helped threat actors infect hundreds of…