Half Of This Year’s Manufacturing Ransomware Came From Groups That Did Not Exist Two Years Ago

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Jaguar Land Rover shut down its own global IT systems on 2 September 2025. Production stopped at three UK plants building roughly 1,000 vehicles a day, and stayed stopped for more than five weeks. The UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre rated it a Category 3 systemic event, put the financial impact at £1.9bn ($2.5bn), and counted … Read more

Dangling DNS Takeover Risk: Inside Silent Push’s “Danglegeddon” Study

There are billions of subdomains on the internet pointing to nothing. Silent Push calls them “billions of forgotten, abandoned, and misconfigured subdomains.” Most sit quietly. None of them look dangerous. Silent Push just proved how wrong that assumption is. The threat intelligence firm ran a simulation across four sectors: government, banking, automotive manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. … Read more

Black Kite 2026: Europe’s Ransomware Surge Now Runs Through Your Suppliers

On Friday, 19 September 2025, ransomware hit a piece of software most travelers never notice. Collins Aerospace runs MUSE. It is the shared check-in system used across many European airports. Heathrow, Brussels, Berlin, and Dublin lost their automated systems. Staff checked passengers in by hand. At least 217 flights were canceled. None of those airports … Read more

Black Kite 2026: Financial Services Faces A Two-Front Cyber Storm

Financial institutions now face danger from two directions at once. Attackers are striking them directly again. Their vendors are springing new leaks at the same time. Black Kite calls it a two-front crisis. Direct ransomware attacks jumped 76% in the first quarter of 2026, year over year. Half of the sector’s vendors now carry critical … Read more

Vulnerability Exploitation Overtakes Stolen Credentials As The #1 Breach Vector

Verizon’s 2026 DBIR Covers 22,000 Confirmed Breaches Across 145 Countries For years, the answer to “how did they get in?” was the same: a stolen password. That answer changed in 2025. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, the 19th annual edition and the largest dataset the report has ever produced, finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken … Read more

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