During a customer trial of Darktrace / EMAIL and Darktrace / IDENTITY, Darktrace detected an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attack that compromised a user’s Office 365 account via a business email compromise (BEC) phishing email. Following the breach, the compromised account was used to launch both internal and external phishing campaigns.

Darktrace observed opportunistic exploitation of the React2Shell vulnerability within minutes of honeypot deployment. Attackers leveraged shell scripts, HTTP beaconing, and cryptomining activity, highlighting rapid adaptation to unpatched flaws.

Atomic Stealer is rapidly emerging as a significant macOS threat, using infostealing and backdoor capabilities to target Apple users worldwide. Darktrace observed campaigns in 24 countries, detecting activity across multiple kill chain stages and providing recommended actions to contain attacks.

Darktrace announces its Leader position in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms, following a recent Customers’ Choice recognition from Gartner Peer Insights.

A global hospitality brand uses Darktrace AI for autonomous, preventative cybersecurity – protecting guest experience, reducing risk, and enabling secure, scalable venue expansion worldwide.

Darktrace detected a surge in Black Friday phishing campaigns exploiting brand impersonation, urgency-driven language, and malicious redirects. Attackers leveraged newly registered domains and social engineering to mimic Amazon, Louis Vuitton, and luxury watch retailers. Learn how layered evasion tactics bypassed security and how Darktrace / EMAIL neutralized these threats.

TAG-150, a MaaS operator active since March 2025, uses CastleLoader and CastleRAT in multi-stage attacks. CastleLoader acts as a loader that retrieves and executes additional malware through deceptive domains and malicious GitHub repositories, while CastleRAT functions as a remote access trojan providing attackers with system control, command execution, and data theft capabilities. Darktrace detected and blocked early attack activity, leveraging Autonomous Response to prevent further compromise and protect enterprise networks.

A forward-looking breakdown of why modern OT environments can’t rely on visibility alone, and how combining Zero Trust access control with AI-driven behavioral detection gives industrial organizations real-time oversight, accountability, and secure remote access without disrupting operations.

Xillen Stealer v4/v5 introduces advanced features to evade AI detection, steal credentials, cryptocurrency, and sensitive data across browsers, password managers, and cloud environments. With polymorphic engines, container persistence, and behavioral mimicking, this Python-based malware highlights evolving threats and future AI integration in cybercrime campaigns.

Generative AI services like Amazon Bedrock are introducing new risks around access, visibility, and data exposure. This blog explores how Darktrace / CLOUD helps prevent these incidents through deep configuration visibility, privilege analysis, misconfiguration detection, and behavioral anomaly monitoring across Bedrock and SageMaker environments.

Earlier this year, Darktrace investigated the Vo1d malware campaign, tracing its activity from DGA-based DNS beaconing to major cloud infrastructure and ultimately to its C2 server communications. This blog explores how Darktrace detected Vo1d and presents a detailed timeline of Cyber AI Analyst’s investigation.

Darktrace has been named the only Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Network Detection and Response, earning a 4.8/5 rating from 242 reviews and being named both Gartner Customers’ Choice and a Magic Quadrant Leader recognition.

Darktrace investigates a DragonForce-affiliated ransomware attack targeting the manufacturing sector. The blog details the attack lifecycle, from network scanning and credential brute-forcing to data exfiltration and file encryption.

In October 2025, Microsoft disclosed a critical vulnerability in its Windows Server Update Service (WSUS). This blog details Darktrace’s analysis of the vulnerability, focusing on two US customers where active exploitation was detected.

This blog introduces new innovations in Darktrace / Proactive Exposure Management that bring precision and clarity to vulnerability prioritization. Learn how No-Telemetry Endpoints provide real device context without network data and how new Cost-Benefit Analysis capabilities quantify patching ROI—helping teams cut noise, act faster, and strengthen proactive risk management.

This blog explores how Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is reshaping defense strategies and how new Darktrace / Attack Surface Management capabilities, including Exploit Prediction Assessment and Deep & Dark Web Monitoring, help organizations turn CTEM from strategy into action.

Darktrace delivers the next evolution of NDR, extending an industry-first bridge across the network and endpoint gap with Self-Learning AI.

Salt Typhoon, a China-linked cyber espionage group, has been observed targeting global infrastructure using stealthy techniques such as DLL sideloading and zero-day exploits. Darktrace recently identified early-stage intrusion activity consistent with Salt Typhoon’s tactics, reinforcing the importance of anomaly-based detection over traditional signature-based methods when defending against persistent, state-sponsored threat.

This civil engineering company maintains much of the highway infrastructure across the UK. After legacy tools failed to stop advanced email threats, the company adopted Darktrace’s AI, which autonomously detected and neutralized attacks—proving its value and driving broader deployment.

Starting in July 2025, Akira ransomware attacks surged globally, targeting SonicWall SSL VPN devices. In August, Darktrace detected suspicious activity in a US network, including scanning, lateral movement, and data exfiltration. A compromised SonicWall VPN server linked the incident to the broader Akira campaign exploiting known vulnerabilities.