Ransomware in 2025: Blending in is the strategy
2026-04-02T08:51:53Z•c57be3fad91050d1a232e6b5c6ff40e88e0f075559ef4bc65469cde71d299573
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What happened
Cisco Talos published a set of March 2026 posts including the 2025 Year in Review and related analysis highlighting evolving ransomware tactics (blending in, identity abuse, and exfiltration using trusted tools), practical defensive guidance, and tooling (DispatchLogger for COM instrumentation). Talos also disclosed and/or reported multiple vendor vulnerabilities (TP-Link, Canva, HikVision, Libbiosig, OpenFOAM) and called out Microsoft Patch Tuesday (Mar 2026) covering 79 vulnerabilities including three rated critical. Additional content covers agentic AI security risks and operational threat‑
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- cisco_talos
- Record identifier
- c57be3fad91050d1a232e6b5c6ff40e88e0f075559ef4bc65469cde71d299573
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-02T08:51:53Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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