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Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 42 Deals Announced in May 2025

1 day ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

The number of cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements surged in May 2025, with 42 deals. An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek shows that 405 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2024. Check out the detailed report.
US Offering $10 Million Reward for RedLine Malware Developer

1 day ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

The US Department of State, through its Rewards for Justice program, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov, an individual accused of being a developer and administrator of the RedLine information-stealer malware. RedLine is a piece of malware that enables cybercriminals to steal valuable information from compromised systems, including credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other financial information.
Backdoored Open Source Malware Repositories Target Novice Cybercriminals

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Ionut Arghire

Cybercriminals too face malware infection when using open source repositories without properly checking them, new research from Sophos shows. This year alone, dozens of reports have revealed supply chain attacks targeting developers, enterprises, or end users to deploy information stealer malware and backdoors, many through malicious NPM packages.
Controversial Firms Cellebrite and Corellium Announce $200 Million Acquisition Deal

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

Israel-based forensic investigation solutions provider Cellebrite announced on Thursday an agreement to acquire US-based virtualization software firm Corellium in a $200 million deal. Cellebrite provides governments and other organizations with tools that enable the extraction and analysis of data from mobile devices and computers. Corellium has developed device virtualization solutions for mobile security research, mobile app testing, and IoT device modeling.
Men Who Hacked Law Enforcement Database for Doxing Sentenced to Prison

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that two men accused of breaching a law enforcement portal as part of a doxing scheme have been sentenced to prison. The men are 21-year-old Sagar Steven Singh, aka ‘Weep’, of Rhode Island, who was sentenced to 27 months of prison, and 27-year-old Nicholas Ceraolo, aka ‘Convict’, ’Anon’ and ‘Ominous’, of New York, who received a 25-month prison sentence.
FBI Aware of 900 Organizations Hit by Play Ransomware

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Ionut Arghire

The Play ransomware gang has made roughly 900 victims over the past three years, according to an updated advisory from the US and Australian governments. Active since June 2022 and also known as Playcrypt, Play is believed to be a closed group, engaging in double-extortion tactics that include exfiltrating victims’ data and leveraging it for extortion, in addition to encrypting systems.
Carding Marketplace BidenCash Shut Down by Authorities

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Ionut Arghire

Approximately 145 dark web and clear web domains associated with the BidenCash marketplace have been seized, the US Department of Justice announced. Operating since March 2022, BidenCash allowed cybercriminals to sell and buy stolen credit cards and personally identifiable information, with the marketplace’s administrators charging a fee for each transaction. In less than a year after it became operational, BidenCash became one of the top carding marketplaces.
Lee Enterprises Says 40,000 Hit by Ransomware-Caused Data Breach

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

American media company Lee Enterprises revealed this week that the disruptive cyberattack it dealt with earlier this year resulted in a data breach impacting nearly 40,000 individuals. Lee Enterprises owns 350 weekly and specialty publications across 25 states, and dozens of them suffered disruptions in February as a result of a ransomware attack that involved the encryption of critical applications and the theft of files.
Ransomware Gang Leaks Alleged Kettering Health Data

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Ionut Arghire

The Interlock ransomware gang has published 941 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Ohio healthcare network Kettering Health. Roughly two weeks ago, the non-profit organization announced cancelling patient procedures while dealing with a system-wide outage caused by a cyberattack. The incident made certain patient care systems across the network inaccessible and impacted the organization’s call center, but the healthcare provider kept emergency rooms and clinics open.
Vodafone Germany Fined $51 Million Over Privacy, Security Failures

2 days ago | securityweek.com | Ionut Arghire

Wireless carrier Vodafone received a €45 million (~$51 million) fine in Germany over failures to adequately protect user data, the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI), the country’s data privacy regulator, announced.