This year’s data has a few eyebrow-raising departures from the patterns of past State of Ransomware reports. Exploited vulnerabilities lost their three-year grip on the top root-cause spot. Median ransom demands and payments both dropped, yet the average recovery bill still climbed. And small organizations (100-250 employees) are falling further behind their larger peers on...Read More
Microsoft cannot seem to avoid stepping on rake after rake, seemingly speedrunning its way into becoming the most hated video game company of the last five years. This time, instead of laying off thousands of developers or leaving storied studios twisting in uncertain winds, it deleted a 25-year-old account belong to Joshua Khane. As first...Read More
Project Glasswing is a controlled-access cybersecurity programme run by Anthropic. It gives approved organisations access to Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model designed for advanced defensive security work, including scanning codebases, identifying zero-day vulnerabilities, and in some cases writing patches. The programme is not a product. Organisations cannot buy access. Instead, each participant must...Read More
In 2025, India lost a whopping ₹22,495 crore to cybercrimes, saw 28.15 lakh reported cases, a 24 per cent surge in complaints over 2024, a year which witnessed an over 200 per cent year-on-year to ₹22,845 crore. Can a nation haemorrhage over ₹22,000 crore a year from its digital economy and still credibly aspire to...Read More
Ransomware group World Leaks has posted on the dark web a huge cache of files related to India’s largest nuclear plant, including purported blueprints of parts of its facilities and supplier details — information it labeled as coming from Reliance Group. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is...Read More
By Xu Yuan ( July 15, 2026, 23:40 GMT | Insight) — Allegations that Meta Platforms should be held liable for failing to help Facebook users recover access to their hacked accounts are likely to move forward in the plaintiffs’ latest attempt to push the case through, a US federal judge indicated.Allegations that Meta Platforms...Read More
Microsoft’s cybersecurity business is developing more artificial intelligence (AI) security products, cutting back on some of its more traditional security products, and consolidating engineering teams, which has led to several hundred layoffs, The Information reported Wednesday (July 15), citing unnamed sources. The company is making these changes to better respond to customer demand for solutions to...Read More
Australia and India are set to be more prescriptive and streamlined in their joint cyber initiatives, through a new partnership launched last week. On 9 July, the two countries unveiled the Partnership on Cyber, Critical Technologies and Supply Chains (PACTS), which will streamline cyber dialogues and working groups to remove duplication. Replacing the 2020 framework,...Read More
Sophos has released its seventh annual State of Ransomware report, a vendor-agnostic survey of IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries identifying the impact of ransomware on businesses and how prepared organizations are to defend against them. This year’s report reveals that identity is the dominant initial access vector (IAV), with four in five (79%)...Read More
CHICAGO (WLS) — Federal cybersecurity officials are warning of a potentially far-reaching hacking campaign linked to the Russian government, prompting renewed concerns about election security as elections approach. According to intelligence sources, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s staff and representatives from other governors’ offices recently met to discuss protections against election-related threats, including foreign malign influence...Read More
