Ransomware Attack Puts a Chill On Japanese Frozen-Food Chain

A batch of Dark Reading stories highlights an escalation in ransomware and supply-chain disruption, rampant abuse of AI toolchains and models, and multiple actively exploited software flaws. Notable incidents include a disruptive ransomware outage at a Japanese frozen-food/logistics firm, widespread chaining exploits targeting millions of WordPress sites via WP2Shell (attackers rapidly combining CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030), and Inc ransomware exploiting SonicWall SMA zero-days to gain root on appliances. Researchers also documented AI/LLM misuse (malicious prompts, model sandbox escapes