A cautionary tale illustrates why the person negotiating should never be involved with any part of the ransom payment process, experts noted.

Three proof-of-concept exploits are being used in active attacks against Microsoft’s built-in security platform; two are unpatched.

The critical remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-1731) in the remote monitoring and management tool can be exploited to spread ransomware and compromise supply chains.

The prompt injection vulnerability in the agentic AI product for filesystem operations was a sanitization issue that allowed for sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution.

Stolen OAuth tokens, which are at the root of these breaches, “are the new attack surface, the new lateral movement,” a researcher noted.