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Ransomware had another worst year on record, which now reads less like a warning than a renewal notice. Black Kite counted 7,551 publicly disclosed ransomware victims in the year to March 31, 2026. That runs 24.9% above the prior period. The annual figure hides the shape of the year. Disclosures tracked close to the prior … Read more
NowSecure found that 95% of large organizations deploy AI inside mobile applications, while 37% lack behavioral monitoring, and apps built predominantly from third-party code report more than twice the security-incident rate. Mobile AI cyber insurance underwriting is becoming more difficult as AI and third-party code spread through enterprise applications faster than security programs can assess … Read more
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
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
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