NCC Group counted 1,073 ransomware attacks in August, a second straight 2026 high and 12% above July. Industrial companies took 31% of them, up from 28% in July, so the hardest-hit sector drew a larger slice of a larger total.
Publishers:infosecurity-magazine.com · nccgroup.com Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Oasis Security says a malicious page can reach the unauthenticated API on port 11434 and poison every later conversation. NVIDIA's own source puts that bind on one platform path.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence52
Private Processing runs glasses workloads in confidential VMs and logs every production image in an append-only public ledger, so the isolation claim can be checked from outside, though the matching binaries reach researchers only under agreement.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives66
- Confidence58
The infrared and ultraviolet captures a bank reads to prove a license is genuine were reportedly on sale beside the ordinary scans, which leaves the cheapest step in account opening deciding nothing on its own.
Reality
- Evidence57
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
PMapper writes nothing to disk until all nine edge checks finish, and one silent endpoint is enough to erase the entire account map. cloudfox, the tool that did run, still ships a privilege-escalation column, but every cell in it just points back to PMapper.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption25
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives25
- Confidence55
A researcher says an unreported campaign used a fake GSTR-3B overdue notice ahead of the 20 August filing deadline, delivering a patched DLL that a genuinely signed Microsoft binary loads.
Publishers:blog.himanshuanand.com
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence54