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Ransomware statistics 2026: confirmed attacks by month

Ransomnews Research TeamJuly 8, 20260

Confirmed ransomware attack statistics, updated monthly: attacks per year, month, country, industry and group, from a human-verified dataset going back to 2018.

XSS forum: from DaMaGeLaB to the 2025 takedown

Ransomnews Research TeamJune 29, 20260

Inside XSS.is, the Russian cybercrime forum seized in 2025. A data-led profile from 123,241 leaked messages: what it traded, who ran it, its place in the ransomware kill chain, and a searchable country IoC table.

Agentic AI threats: how MCP becomes an attack chain

Martynas VareikisJune 29, 20260

Agentic AI moves the threat from what a model says to what it does. We map how MCP turns goal hijacking, tool misuse, and privilege abuse into a working attack chain, and the controls that contain it.

MCP security in 2026: the attack surface mapped

Martynas VareikisJune 28, 20260

A technical map of the Model Context Protocol attack surface in 2026: tool poisoning, line jumping, rug pulls, tool-chaining exfiltration, token sprawl, and the RCE flaws that turned MCP servers into entry points.

Build a secure MCP server in 2026: a hardening guide

Martynas VareikisJune 27, 20260

A practitioner’s hardening guide for MCP servers in 2026: OAuth 2.1 auth, least-privilege tool scopes, sandboxing, egress control, and the tool-definition pinning that blocks poisoning and rug pulls.

ESXi ransomware in 2026: one host, the whole datacenter

Ransomnews Research TeamJune 24, 20260

ESXi ransomware encrypts every VM on a hypervisor at once. Here is why VMware ESXi became ransomware’s highest-value target in 2026, and how to defend it.

Hunting C2 infrastructure: favicon, JARM, cert logs

Jesse William McGrawJune 24, 20260

A 2026 OSINT methodology for pivoting from one malicious IP to a whole adversary cluster using favicon hashes, JARM fingerprints, and certificate transparency.

Deepfake vishing 2026: voice-clone fraud explained

Martynas VareikisJune 24, 20260

Deepfake vishing uses AI-cloned voices to defeat phone-based trust. Here is how voice-clone fraud works in 2026, what it costs, and how to stop it.

1.16 billion attacks: how the FortiBleed crew broke FortiGate

Ransomnews Research TeamJune 19, 20260

Inside the FortiBleed operation: 1.16 billion FortiGate brute-force attempts, a 45-GPU cracking cluster, and the full attack chain, mapped step by step.

FortiBleed: exposed firewalls are a ransomware early warning

Ransomnews Research TeamJune 18, 20260

We cross-checked 73,932 exposed FortiGate firewalls against stealer-log and ransomware-leak data. The overlap is a measurable early warning for breaches.

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