Sophos released its annual State of Ransomware in Education 2026 report, which found that identity-based attack techniques were used in 85% of ransomware attacks against education institutions. Those techniques include malicious email, phishing,Read More…
Phishing accounted for more than half of cybersecurity incident response engagements in the second quarter of 2026, while authentication abuse was observed in 65% of engagements, according to Cisco Talos’s latest Incident Response Trends report.Read More…
Check Point says ransomware activity in the second quarter of 2026 did not decline — it simply dispersed across more operators, making the threat harder to track and defend against. Data leak sites recorded 2,139 victims in Q2, essentially unchanged from Q1 but 33 percentRead More…
Halcyon announced File Resilience (FiRe), a new capability that prevents ransomware encryption before files are modified. By terminating encryption attempts at the Windows kernel level, File Resilience removes the primary mechanism ransomware operatorsRead More…
Proofpoint released its 2026 AI-Era Ransomware Report, revealing that artificial intelligence is making ransomware significantly more successful by helping attackers create more convincing phishing, impersonation and credential theft campaigns.Read More…
Pentera has expanded its ransomware testing capabilities, enabling organizations to run real attack scenarios based on some of the most dangerous ransomware operations in use today. Ransomware remains the primary driver of cybercrime, present in 48% of all breachesRead More…
On International Anti-Ransomware Day, May 12, Kaspersky shares a report with an overview of ransomware trends that marked 2025 and insights into what the threat landscape holds in 2026. According to Kaspersky Security Network, in 2025 Latin AmericaRead More…
Group-IB announced its contribution to INTERPOL-coordinated Operation Synergia III, a global cybercrime operation targeting malicious infrastructure used in phishing, malware, and ransomware campaigns.Read More…
