Ransomware Surges in July After Q2 Lull

Infosecurity Magazine’s July–August 2026 coverage highlights a broad and rapidly evolving threat landscape: ransomware resurgence, cloud and SaaS identity attacks, phishing and AiTM campaigns, software supply-chain compromises, cryptojacking, data breaches, and exploitation of newly disclosed vulnerabilities. Significant stories include malicious npm and Open VSX packages, unauthenticated command execution in Paperclip AI, malicious Hugging Face model repositories, Linux kernel privilege escalation, captive-portal token theft, and attacks involving AI systems. Several reports describe nation‑s