A breach doesn't wait.
Neither do we.

For the past few years, the ransomware conversation has centered on a handful of household names: LockBit, ALPHV/BlackCat, RansomHub, Conti’s descendants. Security teams built their threat models around a short list of dominant, professionalized crews. That model, however, is changing.  2026 has been the year the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) economy fractured. Law enforcement takedowns, affiliate defections, and internal power struggles have splintered the old syndicates into a sprawling, fast-moving ecosystem of smaller gangs, many of which

Ransomware groups have quietly rewritten their playbook. The old assumption that endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools would at least see an attack in progress, even if they couldn’t stop it in time no longer holds. In 2026, the first move in a growing share of ransomware intrusions isn’t encryption. It’s blinding the security stack itself.  This is the world of EDR killer malware: purpose-built tools designed to shut down antivirus and EDR agents from the inside, before the “real” attack ever fires. The technique

For years, the ransomware playbook was predictable: attackers broke in, encrypted your files, and left a note demanding payment for the decryption key. If your screens weren’t full of red warning text, you assumed you’d dodged the bullet. That assumption is now dangerously out of date.  Threat intelligence from 2026 shows a clear and accelerating shift: attackers are increasingly skipping encryption altogether. They break in, quietly copy your sensitive data, and leave. No locked files, no ransom note, no obvious sign