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Ransomware becomes an identity crisis: 79% of attacks now start with stolen credentials
Sophos' seventh State of Ransomware report finds exploited software flaws dethroned as the top attack route, as email and identity compromise take over and falling ransom figures mask a harder shift in how attackers get in.
The Ransom Reckoning: Why Paying Was Never a Recovery Strategy
With payment bans spreading across jurisdictions and the data showing that paying buys neither safety nor silence, security leaders are confronting a harder question than whether to pay: how they became the target in the first place, and whether they can recover without negotiating at all.
275 Million Students, One Point of Failure, and No Way Out
The Canvas ransomware attack exposed what happens when a platform becomes too dominant to avoid and too architecturally fragile to trust — and students had no choice about being in either position.