Key Takeaways: The ransomware conversation is shifting. Rather than treating employees as an unpredictable weakness addressed through annual training, security leaders are beginning to manage human behavior as a measurable layer of enterprise risk. The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 62%
Key Takeaways: A burst of junk email may look like an irritating technical failure. In a ransomware access campaign examined by Zscaler ThreatLabz, however, that disruption is deliberate. It creates the problem that a caller posing as corporate IT will conveniently offer to solve. ThreatLabz examined related activ
Key Takeaways: Bridewell has identified confirmed information-stealer telemetry affecting 10 UK Critical National Infrastructure organisations during Q2 2026, highlighting how credential theft can create an early pathway into systems supporting essential services. Manufacturing accounted for 40% of the victims, ma
Key Takeaways: President Donald J. Trump has directed the Federal Government to establish a program allowing vetted United States companies to conduct cyber surveillance and disruptive cyber operations against forei...
Key Takeaways: Commvault has found that paying ransomware attackers remains a common, and frequently ineffective, response among organisations in Australia and New Zealand. The State of Data Resilience ANZ 2026 report found that 34% of organisations experiencing a ransomware attack paid the demand. Among those tha
Key Takeaways: The familiar ransomware warning signs are becoming less reliable. Threat intelligence reported in 2026 points to an accelerating shift toward attacks in which criminals quietly copy sensitive information, leave systems running and contact the victim later with a threat to publish the stolen material
Key Takeaways: Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have developed Pulse-Fi, a contactless heart-rate-monitoring system that runs on inexpensive Wi-Fi hardware. Rather than requiring a smartwatch, chest strap, or camera, the system detects subtle changes in wireless signals caused by a person’s
Key Takeaways: The SIM card is easy to overlook. It sits inside a phone, router, vehicle or connected device and quietly handles access to a cellular network. Yet new research indicates that a hostile or compromised SIM can do considerably more than redirect a phone number. It can become a foothold inside the devi
Key Takeaways: A USB flash drive discovered in a Farmington, New Mexico, laundromat has triggered a Navajo Nation review of how sensitive veterans’ records were stored, transported and potentially exposed. The device is now secured by the Farmington Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but the scope of t
Key Takeaways: Data breaches are becoming significantly more expensive for Southeast Asian businesses, with artificial intelligence playing roles on both sides of the security contest. The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report put the region’s average cost at $4.12 million in 2026, a record and a 12-percent increase fr