Research into 461 ransomware incidents and 237 negotiations shows that technical resilience is more important than negotiation tactics. Victims with fully recoverable backups negotiate and pay significantly less often. Payment was made in only 18.3% of incidents without communication, compared to 66.7% when victims actually engaged in negotiations. An offered discount increases the probability of […]
Microsoft confirms that CVE-2026-69836, a critical RCE vulnerability in Entra ID, has been actively exploited by attackers. The flaw enabled remote code execution without authentication or user interaction via insecure deserialization. As Entra ID is central to Microsoft 365, Azure, and SSO, exploitation could potentially grant access to tokens, policies, and linked cloud environments. Microsoft […]