484,142 publicly listable cloud buckets hold 18 billion files. Azure over-indexes on backups, and two-thirds of exposed .env secrets files were written in 2026.
Mantas Sasnauskas
Mantas Sasnauskas
Mantas Sasnauskas is the editor-in-chief of Ransomnews and leads its ransomware reporting and investigations. He created the Cybernews research team and led it as Head of Security Research. His investigations include infiltrating REvil's affiliate recruitment in 2021, the 2020 discovery of backdoored routers sold by Walmart, Amazon and eBay, the 2022 Thomson Reuters exposure of 6.9 million logs and, with Bob Dyachenko, the 26-billion-record "Mother of all Breaches" of 2024. He sets the verification standard behind Ransomnews and its Ransomtracker, confirmed-attacks and Stealercheck datasets: claims are reported as claims, and an attack is confirmed only from victims, regulators and primary documents.