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Huntress explains the compliance obligations of Texas law HB 3834, passed in June 2019. It requires state agency and local government employees, and state contractors, to complete a Department of Information Resources (DIR)-certified cybersecurity awareness training every year. Since September 1, 2025, HB 3512 adds a second annual require…
Huntress published a vendor blog post on the role and limits of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in modern data protection. It explains that VSS remains a core framework for application-consistent snapshots on Windows workloads but should not be treated as a complete recovery or ransomware defense. The article warns that modern …
This sponsored piece from Zscaler argues that UK public services have reached a cyber resilience inflection point. It cites a new Prime Minister, the scrapping of DSIT, and the redistribution of its cyber and digital functions across Whitehall. Three forces are named: policy raising expectations for boards, organizational reform (Local Go…
Trend Micro published its 2024 Cyber Risk Report, based on telemetry from the Trend Vision One Cyber Risk Exposure Management platform. The average Cyber Risk Index (CRI) was 38.4 for the year, down 6.2 points from 2023, and stayed in the Medium Risk zone (31-69). Trend attributes the decline to organizations adopting proactive, risk-base…
A Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint survey of 705 IT and security practitioners at U.S. healthcare institutions (conducted May 2026) found that 97% of organizations suffered at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months, and 74% of those reported disruption to patient care. The average number of attacks per organization rose to 51 from 43…
A Register "On Call" column recounts a reader's account (pseudonym Daniel) of joining a UK school in 2020, after the school's network had been taken offline for three months by ransomware. Recovery relied on external contractors and a months-old backup. His audit found a password policy of six letters with no complexity or expiry, and use…
In his Weekly Update 517, Troy Hunt offers commentary on the current ransomware situation. He argues that much of what is called ransomware often involves no malware at all and is simply extortion, frequently carried out by young offenders. These actors earn large sums but struggle to spend them without being caught. He adds that breached…
Huntress reports that manufacturing accounted for about 17% of cyber attacks in 2025, up from 9% in 2024, citing its own cyber threat report. The article is a vendor trends piece rather than an incident report. It argues that ransomware operators now target production uptime and operational technology (OT), not just data, because manufact…
A Huntress vendor blog post lists 10 endpoint security trends. It reports no specific incident, vulnerability or campaign. The themes are agentic AI and the hijacking of non-human identities, ransomware shifting to double and triple extortion, incident response (IR) readiness, EDR-to-XDR consolidation, identity-first security and zero tru…
Trend Micro published its annual threat report, Calibrating Expansion, covering 2023. It reports 161 billion threats blocked, a 10% annual increase. Attackers appear to be targeting fewer, higher-value victims with more sophisticated methods. Email and web reputation blocks fell 47% and 2%, while File Reputation Service detections rose 35…
Trend Micro published its Security Predictions Report for 2026, titled The AI-fication of Cyberthreats, forecasting that AI and automation will let threat actors run entire campaigns autonomously, from reconnaissance to extortion. This is a forward-looking vendor assessment, not a report of a specific incident, and it names no actors, CVE…
This ESET WeLiveSecurity blog post argues that small and midsize businesses (SMBs) want advanced protection that is simple, guided and manageable. It cites ESET data showing 75% of SMBs are concerned about global conflicts and cyber warfare, nearly half had at least one cyber incident in the past year, and 58% believe they are more vulner…
Kaspersky ICS CERT reports that in Q2 2026 malicious objects were blocked on 19.15% of ICS computers, the lowest level since 2022. Regional rates ranged from 8.1% in Northern Europe to 27.9% in Africa. East Asia saw the largest increase (+2.0 pp). The biometrics sector (26.44%) again led all industries. Kaspersky products blocked malware …
A Cisco blog post by Renato Morais compares past landmark threats with the emerging risk from autonomous AI agents, then presents Cisco's agentic security reference architecture. It recounts the ILOVEYOU worm (2000), a social-engineering email worm, and WannaCry (2017), a ransomware worm using EternalBlue against unpatched Windows systems…
Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute released their fifth annual Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare report, based on a survey of 705 IT and security practitioners at U.S. healthcare organizations. 97% of respondents experienced at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months, and 74% of those reported disruption to patient care. The average nu…
The 2026 Ponemon Healthcare Cybersecurity Report, commissioned by Proofpoint, finds that cyberattacks on healthcare organizations are rising, costing more and increasingly harming patient care. The survey covered 705 IT and security practitioners. 97% of organizations suffered at least one attack in the past 12 months, averaging 51 attack…
A Huntress thought-leadership post sets out five priorities for security leaders in 2026: abuse of trusted IT tools, AI-enabled cybercrime, social engineering, multi-extortion ransomware and identity-based attacks including BEC. The article cites internal Huntress telemetry showing RMM abuse rising roughly 277% year over year, with Screen…
