🟠 High | Source: The Register — Security
Ransomware attacks are rising sharply as security teams and industry attention remain focused on AI developments, giving threat actors room to operate with less scrutiny. Major ransomware gangs are exploiting this distraction to increase the pace and scale of their campaigns. The trend highlights the risk of collective attention bias in cybersecurity, where emerging technology hype can draw focus away from persistent, high-impact threats.
Security Architect’s Take: Review and stress-test your ransomware response runbooks now — ensure immutable backups are verified, blast radius is limited via network segmentation and least-privilege IAM policies, and that detection coverage for lateral movement and data exfiltration hasn’t drifted while AI initiatives have consumed team bandwidth.
Original advisory: Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI