Nord Security reports 2,894 ransomware attacks between July and September 2026, a 50% increase year over year and an 8.6% rise over Q2 2026. Researchers attribute the rebound to the market stabilizing after law enforcement takedowns of LockBit, BlackCat and RansomHub, which suppressed activity during 2025. The Gentlemen (383 attacks) narr…
Conduent has agreed to pay $80m to settle a class action over the October 2024 cyber incident that exposed personal and health data of roughly 62 million people. The filing was submitted to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026, and confirmed in an 8-K filing with the SEC. The attack was allegedly carrie…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued reprimands, not fines, to Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales (Data Cymru) over a ransomware attack on 1 November 2024 (theregister.com, infosecurity-magazine.com). The intruder entered Data Cymru's network through a forgotten test account, Test2 (…
The Semperis 2026 Ransomware Risk Report, published on October 14, warns that ransomware operators are increasingly threatening the physical safety of CISOs, executives and other senior staff at victim organizations to force payment. The report says a quarter of ransomware campaigns now involve psychological or physical threats against em…