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Nine Months and Counting: What the WatchGuard Ransomware Alert Should Teach Every Security Leader About Patch Fatigue

Nine Months and Counting: What the WatchGuard Ransomware Alert Should Teach Every Security Leader About Patch Fatigue

by Team Black Belt | Sep 15, 2026 | Cybersecurity News

The latest WatchGuard ransomware alert from CISA is a serious wake-up call for security teams: a critical WatchGuard Firebox firewall vulnerability, first flagged as actively exploited back in December, is now being used by ransomware gangs. The patch has existed for...
When AI Becomes the Attack Surface: The Hidden Cost of Overreliance on AI Tools at Work

When AI Becomes the Attack Surface: The Hidden Cost of Overreliance on AI Tools at Work

by Team Black Belt | Sep 14, 2026 | Cybercrime, Artificial Intelligence

The AI attack surface is expanding inside the tools employees already trust. AI tools have become part of the daily workflow at businesses of every size — drafting emails, troubleshooting tech problems, answering quick questions that used to mean a call to IT. That...
What the Current State of AI Cybersecurity Tells You About the Industry

What the Current State of AI Cybersecurity Tells You About the Industry

by Team Black Belt | Sep 11, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

AI cybersecurity is forcing a reckoning across the security profession. A new industry survey just put a hard number on something a lot of security leaders have been feeling for a while: half of CISOs say the arrival of frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos has...
When the “Recovery Firm” Emailing You Is Actually the Hacker: Inside the Ransom Busters Scam

When the “Recovery Firm” Emailing You Is Actually the Hacker: Inside the Ransom Busters Scam

by Team Black Belt | Aug 27, 2026 | Cybercrime

The Ransom Busters scam is rewriting the rules of ransomware negotiations in a way few victims see coming. Ransomware has always had a predictable, if brutal, script: attackers encrypt your data, demand payment, and threaten to leak what they’ve stolen if you don’t...
Is It Time to Take a Second Look at Your Company’s FTP Server Security?

Is It Time to Take a Second Look at Your Company’s FTP Server Security?

by Team Black Belt | Aug 26, 2026 | Cybersecurity News

For a lot of businesses, the FTP server is one of those pieces of infrastructure that’s been running quietly in the background for years. It works, nobody thinks about it, and it rarely makes it onto anyone’s list of security priorities. A new discovery...
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When the Ransomware Recovery “Rescue” Is the Real Rip-Off: Lessons From the MonsterCloud Charges

When the Ransomware Recovery “Rescue” Is the Real Rip-Off: Lessons From the MonsterCloud Charges

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Ransomware recovery sounds like the answer every victim wants when files are locked and operations stop. That urgency is exactly what a new criminal case says one company exploited, and it’s a warning every business should hear before it ever needs help. Zohar...

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SonicWall SMA1000 appliances just received another maximum-severity warning, and the pattern is becoming hard to ignore. "A customer who did everything right last month is exposed again today." That's how one industry analyst summed up SonicWall's latest advisory, and...

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