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Manual brand impersonation takedowns fail because attackers move faster than ticket-based abuse reports can resolve — phishing pages and fake executive profiles often do their damage within hours of going live, while manual removal can take days. A managed takedown program pairs continuous, verified monitoring with pre-authorized removal (in-certain cases), cutting the exposure window from days to hours. This matters most for consulting and professional services firms, where a spoofed domain or fake executive profile can compromise the client trust the business is built on. How UNC3753 targeted US professional services firms in 2026 Between January and May of 2026, Google's Mandiant threat intelligence team tracked a financially motivated extortion campaign — attributed to a group known as UNC3753, or "Luna Moth," or "Silent Ransom Group" — working its way through dozens of professional, legal, and financial services organizations across the United States. The approach was almost old-f

The Americas carried the heaviest ransomware burden of any region on the planet in the first half of 2026. According to Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), North and South America combined experienced 2,188 documented ransomware attacks between January and June 2026. That single figure — 2,188 attacks — represents more than 57% of the 3,836 ransomware incidents CRIL tracked worldwide , making the Americas the undisputed center of gravity for global ransomware operations. But the Americas is not a single threat theatre — it is two. North America alone absorbed 1,981 attacks , driven by a mature, multi-group Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) economy competing for market share. South America, by contrast, recorded 207 attacks concentrated around a much smaller set of operators, with one group — The Gentlemen — claiming nearly a quarter of all regional incidents outright. Understanding the Americas means understanding both halves of that story: a saturated northern market and a conso

Ransomware stopped being an isolated incident type in 2025. It became the dominant force behind the modern breach landscape, and the ransomware data breach statistics from Cyble's own tracking make the shift impossible to ignore. For organizations facing this growing threat, having a ransomware incident response plan in place is becoming just as important as preventing an attack in the first place. Cyble's Global Cybersecurity Report 2025 documented 5,967 ransomware attacks for the year, a 50% year-over-year jump. Against the 6,046 data breaches and leaks recorded in the same period, ransomware accounted for nearly half — 49.7% — of the combined ransomware-and-breach total tracked by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL). That's the "nearly half" this blog's title refers to, and it isn't a projection. It's what Cyble observed.  The pace hasn't slowed into 2026:  Q4 2025 brought 2,018 claimed attacks (roughly 673 a month), and January 2026 held that pace at 679 vict

Europe faced a ransomware onslaught in the first half of 2026 that sets a troubling precedent for the remainder of the year. According to Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), the region experienced 866 documented ransomware attacks , 51 confirmed data breach incidents , and 7 initial access sales between January and June 2026. These figures represent not just a volume problem, but a fundamental shift in how threat actors are organizing, targeting, and monetizing their operations within European territory. What distinguishes the ransomware threats in Europe from other global regions is the concentration of power among a small number of highly sophisticated threat actors . While the threat ecosystem encompasses dozens of groups, five dominant ransomware operators account for approximately 55% of all documented activity. This concentration creates predictability—European security leaders can now identify, profile, and build specific defensive strategies against known adversaries.

A single compromised credential is often all it takes to turn an ordinary workday into a full-scale cybersecurity incident. Despite investments in firewalls, endpoint security, and identity controls, attackers continue to exploit one of the simplest yet most effective entry points—stolen usernames and passwords.  Whether exposed through phishing campaigns , malware infections, credential-stealing infostealers, or data breaches , compromised credentials are readily traded across underground forums and dark web marketplaces . Once obtained, threat actors waste little time putting them to use. What begins as an unauthorized login can quickly escalate into privilege abuse, lateral movement, data exfiltration, and ransomware deployment—all within a matter of hours. The risk is no longer theoretical. According to Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL), more than  6,046 confirmed data breach incidents  were monitored globally in 2025, w

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Modern organizations no longer operate within a fixed network perimeter. Cloud services, remote work, third-party integrations, and rapid digital expansion have made the boundary between "inside" and "outside" for the enterprise increasingly difficult to define.  Attackers exploit this ambiguity by scanning continuously for weaknesses across an organization's hardware, software, cloud, and internet-facing assets. The uncomfortable truth security leaders must confront is simple: an organization cannot secure what it does not know it has.  Attack surface expansion is frequently framed as a tooling gap, but the evidence points elsewhere — toward a persistent, structural failure in attack surface discovery, asset discovery, and visibility.  Why Attack Surface Sprawl Happens   Attack surfaces expand for several identifiable and recurring reasons. Cloud adoption introduces new workloads, storage resources, and services that may be provisioned outside f

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You may have heard your peers say, “Cybercrime has become industrialized.” But did you have any proof?  We do.  Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) closed out its tracking for the first half of 2026 with a deep analysis of the Global Threat Landscape spanning ransomware, initial access brokers, data breaches and leaks, nation-state espionage, and hacktivism, among others. One of the most striking analyses that puts the threat landscape severity in perspective was the number of distinct threat actor profiles active worldwide between January and June. 261 — that’s how many identifiable groups and individuals, each with its own tradecraft, targeting logic, and operational rhythm, running campaigns simultaneously across nation-state espionage, ransomware, hacktivism, and cybercrime. What makes this data set valuable isn't just the headline count. It's what the composition reveals. A threat landscape dominated by nation-state APT groups tells a ver