After reading recent reports of AI’s impact on cybercrime, one might assume that the world is about to enter an era of frightening, AI-powered ransomware attacks. As Trend Micro put it in its November 2025 report, The AI-Fication of Cyberthreats: “The tools, tactics, and procedures that once required coordinated human effort can now be executed […]
Between October and November 2025, one of the biggest cybercrime operations in Interpol history saw the arrest of 574 people suspected of business email compromise (BEC), digital extortion, and ransomware. Despite its scale, the operation gained almost no attention in the US and UK because it happened across 19 African countries, principally Ghana and Nigeria. […]
There’s no escaping AI’s tightening grip on the technology industry, and it turns out that ransomware criminals are just as susceptible to the reality-bending excitement as anyone else. According to an analysis of 2,800 ransomware incidents from 2023-2024 carried out by Safe Security and MIT Sloan, 80% utilized what is termed ‘adversarial AI’ in one […]
It’s nearly 20 years since I first encountered ransomware as the security editor of an online computer magazine, although at the time I had no idea what it was and the term had not yet been coined to describe it. A reader emailed me to describe how the main computer he used as part of […]
More than three-in-ten ransomware victims are being hit multiple times, thanks to ineffective defenses and security fragmentation. According to Barracuda Networks’ Ransomware Insights Report, 57% of organizations fell victim to a successful ransomware attack in the last 12 months, with 31% of victims affected more than once. A ransom was paid in 32% of cases, […]
The Interlock ransomware gang is aggressively targeting businesses and critical infrastructure in North America and Europe, according to a new warning from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). stepping up its attacks and changing tactics. The agency issued an advisory describing how Interlock picks its victims on the basis of opportunity, carrying out […]
