{"id":6954,"date":"2026-02-10T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/warlock-ransomware-breaches-smartertools-through-unpatched-smartermail-server\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:12:22","slug":"warlock-ransomware-breaches-smartertools-through-unpatched-smartermail-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/warlock-ransomware-breaches-smartertools-through-unpatched-smartermail-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Warlock Ransomware Breaches SmarterTools Through Unpatched SmarterMail Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSmarterTools confirmed last week that the Warlock (aka Storm-2603) ransomware gang breached its network by exploiting an unpatched SmarterMail instance.<br \/>\nThe incident took place on January 29, 2026, when a mail server that was not updated to the latest version was compromised, the company&#8217;s Chief Commercial Officer, Derek Curtis, said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Prior to the breach, we had approximately 30 servers\/VMs\u00a0SmarterTools confirmed last week that the Warlock (aka Storm-2603) ransomware gang breached its network by exploiting an unpatched SmarterMail instance.<br \/>\nThe incident took place on January 29, 2026, when a mail server that was not updated to the latest version was compromised, the company&#8217;s Chief Commercial Officer, Derek Curtis, said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Prior to the breach, we had approximately 30 servers\/VMs\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSmarterTools confirmed last week that the Warlock (aka Storm-2603) ransomware gang breached its network by exploiting an unpatched SmarterMail instance. The incident took place on January 29, 2026, when a mail server that was not updated to the latest version was compromised, the company&#8217;s Chief Commercial Officer, Derek Curtis, said. &#8220;Prior to the breach, we&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/warlock-ransomware-breaches-smartertools-through-unpatched-smartermail-server\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warlock Ransomware Breaches SmarterTools Through Unpatched SmarterMail Server<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}