Kaseya VSA Ransomware: 60 MSPs, 1,500 Businesses, One Friday
REvil turned Kaseya’s remote-management platform into a mass-encryption weapon, hitting ~60 MSPs and up to 1,500 downstream businesses days before a patch could land.
JBS Foods Ransomware: Paying $11M Even With Working Backups
REvil halted the world’s largest meat processor over a holiday weekend; JBS restored from backups — and still paid $11M for leak suppression and restart insurance. The economics of ransom beyond decryption.
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware: One Password, 17 Emergency States
DarkSide entered through a no-MFA legacy VPN password, exfiltrated 100 GB, and encrypted Colonial’s IT — prompting a precautionary shutdown of 45% of East Coast fuel supply. Anatomy of the most policy-consequential ransomware ever.
CD Projekt Red Ransomware: The Source-Code Auction That Failed
HelloKitty ransomware encrypted CDPR’s network and stole Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 source code — then auctioned it on a crime forum after the studio refused to pay. The incident file on IP extortion, auction economics, and the no-ransom playbook.
What Studying 33 Historic Cyberattacks Taught Me About Defending Systems Today
4 defense lessons from 33 historic cyberattacks – Morris Worm to XZ backdoor. Credentials, trust, detection speed and complexity, plus a small-budget priority list.
2022–2024: Lapsus$, Change Healthcare & the XZ Backdoor
The current era: social engineering teenage crews beating billion-dollar defenses, extortion without encryption, a single company’s collapse freezing America’s pharmacies — and the closest the internet has ever come to a supply-chain catastrophe.
2020–2021: SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline & the Ransomware Wave
The era attackers learned to poison the supply chain itself: a backdoor inside the software updates of 18,000 organizations, and ransomware crews bold enough to shut down a country’s fuel pipeline and its meat supply.
2016–2019: WannaCry, NotPetya & Mirai
The most destructive years in internet history: nation-state ransomware, the $10B NotPetya wipeout and the IoT botnet that broke the US internet.
The 33 Biggest Cyberattacks & Hacks in History (1988–2024)
From the worm that broke 10% of the early Internet to the ransomware attack that froze America’s pharmacy system — the 33 incidents that defined modern cybersecurity, in one complete list.
Marquis breach anatomy – one cracked firewall rippling across 74 banks
Marquis Data Breach: One SonicWall Firewall, 74 Banks, 672,075 Identities
Attackers entered Texas fintech Marquis through a SonicWall firewall and reached data for 700+ client banks - 672,075 identities, 74 institutions disrupted. The supply-chain anatomy and five break-points.
Bank of Baroda breach anatomy – weak password to inbox to free 1TB dump
Bank of Baroda Data Breach: How One Weak Password Leaked 1TB of Bank Data
TripleX published 1TB of Bank of Baroda customer data for free after a credential-only intrusion - no malware, no core banking access. Full attack anatomy and the five break-points that would have stopped it.
How AI Is Transforming Ransomware in 2026: Threats & Defense
Discover how AI is revolutionizing ransomware attacks in 2026 — from automated RaaS platforms to deepfake-powered extortion and actionable defense strategies.