Editorial Team - DIESEC

Faster Ransomware Attacks: How to Break the Attack Chain

By Editorial Team | June 3, 2026

Faster ransomware attacks are no longer an emerging concern — they are the new baseline. The traditional sequence — initial access, lateral movement, privilege escalation, exploration, and finally encryption — once gave defenders an imperfect but workable window to detect and respond. That window is narrowing. Recent data indicates that attackers are now moving to…

A ransomware group grew from 35 victims to 182 in a single quarter. They did it by offering affiliates 90% of every ransom paid.

By Editorial Team | June 3, 2026

A ransomware group grew from 35 victims to 182 in a single quarter. They did it by offering affiliates 90% of every ransom paid. That’s not a cyber story. That’s a business model. The Gentlemen launched in August 2025. By Q1 2026 they were the second most active ransomware group globally, claiming 300+ victims publicly…

Your VPN just let someone in without a password.

By Editorial Team | June 2, 2026

Your VPN just let someone in without a password. Not because they guessed it. Not because someone clicked a phishing link. Because the authentication check never happened at all. CVE-2026-0257 is an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS that affects GlobalProtect portal and gateway. The flaw is subtle: when the certificate used to encrypt…

Your endpoint manager just delivered malware to every device it manages.

By Editorial Team | June 1, 2026

Your endpoint manager just delivered malware to every device it manages. That is not a hypothetical. It happened this week. CVE-2026-35616 is a pre-authentication API bypass in FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS). CVSS 9.1. Actively exploited. Here is what the attack looks like: the attacker authenticates to your EMS without credentials, takes control of the…