Ransomware & Malware

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (907+ words) This is a news analysis of what the September 2 case actually shows, how it fits into 18 months of escalating agentic AI attacks and other cybersecurity threats in 2026, what it’s already costing companies according to IBM’s 2026 breach data, and how vendors…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (418+ words) Revolut is far from alone in facing a data exposure event tied to social engineering rather than a technical exploit. The table below places this incident alongside a handful of other notable 2025-2026 breaches that involved trust-based manipulation of a company’s…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (761+ words) That framing matters. FLHSMV is not describing a platform-wide vulnerability. It is describing a single compromised account, tied to a single employee, at a single municipal police department. The Florida DMV data breach, in FLHSMV’s own account, is a credential-hygiene…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (112+ words) DW.com Berlin is dealing with the biggest cyberattack in its history after hackers stole nearly 6 terabytes of government data in a ClickFix scam and demanded a €2 million ransom. How did it happen? How could a single employee's mistake expose…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (393+ words) Whatever the outcome of these two specific claims, they land in a sector already absorbing a heavy breach-reporting load in 2026. Different trackers slice the numbers differently depending on cutoff dates and filters, but every count points the same direction: a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (611+ words) Read together, the two reports describe a trend line that keeps climbing rather than plateauing. Japan’s ransomware cases 2026 figures now sit ahead of every comparable half-year period the agency has published, and officials have not signaled any expectation that the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (580+ words) That divergence is the story security teams, CISOs, and boards need to understand heading into the back half of 2026. Attack counts are up. Payment rates are down. And the ransom demands that do get paid have exploded in size, turning…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (375+ words) It’s easy for a story like this to blur into a single narrative of “Florida DMV hacked.” The individual facts deserve to be kept separate, because they carry very different weight. The Florida DMV claim doesn’t stand alone. It’s the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (445+ words) MAG operates three of England’s busiest airports: Manchester Airport, London Stansted Airport, and East Midlands Airport. The company has said the majority of the data accessed was restricted to customer email addresses tied to Wi-Fi sign-ups within airport terminals, alongside…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (506+ words) The breach began with a social engineering voice phishing scheme, a tactic where attackers call employees and impersonate colleagues, IT staff, or trusted vendors to convince them to hand over access credentials. Jack Henry says this method allowed intruders to…...