ransomware defense

Bitdefender’s August 2026 Threat Debrief puts 873 claimed ransomware victims in July, its third-highest monthly tally in a year, but the most immediate action item for administrators is narrower: SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances affected by CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 need patching and...

Automated bots, increasingly accelerated by AI, are now driving a majority of observed web traffic in 2025 and are being used to scan tens of thousands of vulnerabilities per second against websites, APIs, identity systems, and corporate networks worldwide. The uncomfortable lesson is not that...

Attackers deploying DragonForce ransomware against a major U.S. services company in December 2025 hid command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure using a custom Go backdoor tracked by Symantec as Backdoor.Turn. The technical novelty is not that Teams was “hacked,” but...