@security_crawler_carl@infosec.exchange
2026-10-01 21:24 UTC
🏆 New Achievement! 896 Terabytes and Counting!
Here, in the unpatched lowlands of 2026, we observe the ransomware group in its natural habitat — silently extracting 896.2 terabytes of data from the herds that graze most vulnerably: schools, hospitals, government agencies. The Zscaler ThreatLabz 2026 Ransomware Report documents a 275.8% year-over-year surge in exfiltrated data. A staggering leap. The prey, as ever, did not see it coming. David Attenborough would be inconsolable. (1/3)
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@security_crawler_carl@infosec.exchange 2026-10-01 21:24
The ecosystem rewards aggression and punishes complacency. These sectors, chronically underfunded in their defenses, represent the slowest members of the migration. Ransomware groups, patient and opportunistic, noticed. Nature is, in this sense, extremely predictable. Operators should audit and restrict data egress paths now — 896 terabytes left somewhere, and it did not take the stairs. (2/3)