World Backup Day is drawing renewed attention to the growing risk of ransomware and a shifting view of backup: no longer a back-office chore, but a board-level concern, according to senior leaders at CTERA. They describe a move away from traditional disaster-recovery thinking towards models that assume active, intelligent attacks on both production systems and...Read More
The arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) in the threat landscape has resulted in cutting down the time for a high-damage ransomware to be launched within a couple of days from the earlier timeframe of a week or 10 days, said Nicole Quinn, the vice-president for policy and government affairs in the Japan and Asia...Read More
Ravie LakshmananMar 19, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking News ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do. Some of it looks simple, almost sloppy, until you see how...Read More
Rubrik has rolled out new programme and platform features for managed service providers (MSPs), focusing on pay-as-you-go licensing, partner tiering, and 24/7 ransomware response support. The updates span Rubrik Security Cloud and its partner programme. Rubrik also outlined plans for an “earned” designation called Rubrik Verified, positioned as a benchmark of operational maturity for service...Read More
AI-generated phishing as become the default, and brand impersonation has emerged as the dominant fraud method; these are the two headline findings from Kaseya’s 2026 cybersecurity report. There has been a significant rise in AI-enabled cyber-crime campaigns, the report found. Gen-AI has enabled cyber-criminals to refine their tactics, shifting from mass volume operations to carefully...Read More
New data from Cyfirma shows a marked rise in cyber threats facing the sector, with energy and utilities organizations featuring in six of 14 observed advanced persistent threat campaigns, up from just two in the prior period, indicating growing adversary focus on critical infrastructure. Intelligence gathered from Cyfirma’s external threat telemetry found predominance of suspected...Read More
Anti-ransomware leader will host live demos, explore pressing ransomware challenges, and present new threat research to arm defenders SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Halcyon, the leading anti-ransomware solution provider, today announced its return to RSAC Conference, taking place March 23-26 in San Francisco. The company will be at Booth #4315 where attendees can experience...Read More
Data exfiltration activity increasingly leverages legitimate native utilities, commonly deployed third-party tools, and cloud service clients, reducing the effectiveness of static indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tool-based blocking strategies. The Exfiltration Framework systematically normalizes behavioral and forensic characteristics of these tools, enabling cross-environment comparison independent of operating system, deployment model, or infrastructure domain. By modeling execution context, parent-child process relationships, network...Read More
Data exfiltration activity increasingly leverages legitimate native utilities, commonly deployed third-party tools, and cloud service clients, reducing the effectiveness of static indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tool-based blocking strategies. The Exfiltration Framework systematically normalizes behavioral and forensic characteristics of these tools, enabling cross-environment comparison independent of operating system, deployment model, or infrastructure domain. By modeling execution context, parent-child process relationships, network...Read More
ESET EDR killers are a fundamental part of modern ransomware intrusions; affiliates prefer a short, reliable window to run encryptors rather than constantly modifying payloads. Affiliates, not operators, pick the EDR killers; larger affiliate pools lead to greater tooling diversity. EDR killers implement defense evasion techniques, while encryptors focus purely on encryption. ESET strongly suspects...Read More
