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Paying Ransomware Criminals Doesn't Make Them Go Away. Surprise.
New data from Proofpoint reveals that paying ransomware demands offers no guarantee of safety, with 22% of UK organisations that paid being extorted a second time. Globally, 54% of victim organisations paid ransoms, yet 2% never recovered their files at all, and law enforcement takedowns like Operation Cronos confirmed that criminals routinely retain victim data even after receiving payment. AI is increasingly being used to enhance the phishing and credential-harvesting attacks that precede ransomware, though experts stress that building organisational cyber-resilience remains a far more effective strategy than paying attackers.
An Executive's Inbox Was Silently Plundered for Five Months. Here's What That Tells Us About AI-Assisted Attacks
A stock exchange executive had their Outlook mailbox compromised for five months without anyone noticing. Five months.
Typosquatting Has Outgrown the User Error Excuse
Typosquatting was once seen as a relatively simple phishing threat: a user mistypes a domain, lands on a malicious site, and becomes compromised. That model is now outdated. Modern typosquatting has moved beyond browsers into software package registries, dependency managers, and CI/CD pipelines, making it a software supply chain security issue rather than a user-awareness problem.