Topic

Ransomware

Ransomware operations, affiliate shifts, negotiation pressure, and continuity planning.

Articles: 2
Desk: 1

Illustration of an autonomous AI agent chaining a Langflow RCE foothold into Nacos and database destruction in the JadePuffer campaign

JadePuffer AI Ransomware Marks First Fully Agentic Extortion Campaign

The operator chained CVE-2025-3248 through secrets harvest, Nacos takeover and database destruction — including a 31-second self-repair — with no human driving.

Jul 16 · 7 min

Editorial illustration of identity-based ransomware entry via compromised credentials leading toward domain compromise

stableResearch Ransomware

Compromised Credentials Overtake Vulnerabilities as Primary Ransomware Entry Point

Across 661 incident-response cases, 67 percent of root causes were identity-related — a decisive shift in where ransomware defence budgets should now sit.

Jul 15 · 7 min