Cybersecurity news last week included Russian cybercriminals exploiting a vulnerability in the 7-Zip tool, the discovery of malware on App Store and Google Play that extract cryptowallets’ seed recovery phrases, and problems being faced by financially-related algorithms due to poor data hygiene. Despite these, more victims are refusing to pay ransoms and hitherto overlooked cybersecurity staff issues are being addressed. A new open source zero trust protocol has been released and organizations are improving cybersecurity resourcing.

GOLD SALEM Compromise Networks and Bypass Security Solutions to Deploy Warlock Ransomware
The cyberthreat landscape has witnessed the emergence of another sophisticated ransomware operation as GOLD SALEM, a new threat actor group also known as Warlock Group,