Ransomware gangs rebrand every few months. The behavior they monetize hasn't since 1989.
Cybersecurity Insights Decoded

Decoded – Ransomware in Italy is an accounting decision, and the attackers know your books

RedACT counted 148 confirmed ransomware claims against Italian organizations in six months. Almost none of them required sophistication to pull off. What they required was a set of human behaviors so consistent (before the breach and especially after it) that thirty different gangs can price them into a business model.

Skepticism runs on two things:
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๐Ÿ”— Field Notes – Comfort is the attack surface on both sides of the firewall

The 2026 SANS survey lands on a reassuring finding: a trained, skeptical human is still the best defense against AI-enabled attacks. Sit with the rest of the numbers and a harder pattern shows up. Skepticism runs on time and discomfort, and an AI-shaped attack is built to remove both, on both sides of the firewall.

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