Akira Ransomware: Conti Lineage, VPN Exploitation, and Double Extortion at Scale

DarkWatchMan is a fileless, modular malware family first observed in late 2021 and attributed to the financially motivated Hive0117 group. The malware is primarily delivered via spear-phishing emails containing password-protected archives, targeting Russian critical infrastructure (energy, etc).
PSLoramyra just sent your hard drive a breakup text. 🥀 Why bother writing files when you can Airbnb in RAM and ghost EDR?
Think your AI download is legit? Dark Partners turned 250+ spoofed sites into a crypto vacuum—dropping Poseidon (macOS) & PayDay (Windows) right past your AV with stolen certs
🎧☁️ When the “help desk” helps itself. UNC6040’s phone-phishing swarm hijacks Salesforce via a doctored Data Loader — Google fingers 20+ victims (and counting).