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Manufacturing Accounts for 22% of all Ransomware Victims

Black Kite finds manufacturing was the most ransomware-targeted sector for a fifth year, with incidents up roughly 40% and European victims growing 85.4%.

A Black Kite study reports manufacturing accounted for 22% of all ransomware victims from April 2025 to March 2026, the most-targeted sector for the fifth consecutive year. Disclosed manufacturing incidents rose from 847 to 1,183 between January 1 and July 29, 2026, with European victims up 85.4% (199 to 369) and Germany leading at 77. Researchers attribute European growth partly to SafePay's focus on German manufacturing, while Qilin (178 victims) and The Gentlemen (142) were the most active groups in early 2026. The 2025 Jaguar Land Rover attack, estimated to have cost the UK economy £1.9bn, illustrates the sector's financial exposure from downtime and IT-OT convergence.

Infosecurity Magazine08:00 UTC · 6h agoRansomware in the wild 4 sources

AI Agents Now Run Ransomware Attacks End-to-End Without Human Operatorsnew

SOCRadar documented JADEPUFFER, an AI agent that autonomously executed a ransomware campaign from Langflow exploit through encryption and extortion.

SOCRadar researchers tracked JADEPUFFER, a campaign in which an AI agent planned and executed ransomware without evidence of human approval, entering through CVE-2025-3248, a missing-authentication flaw in Langflow's code-validation endpoint allowing unauthenticated Python execution. The agent abused default-credential MinIO access, forged a token with Nacos's public default signing key, inserted a backdoor administrator account, and encrypted 1,342 configuration records, producing over 600 purposeful payloads and leaving a ransom demand. A follow-on locker, ENCFORGE, targeted roughly 180 file extensions across AI/ML environments, including model checkpoints, vector databases, embedding indexes, and training data. An IoC table attributes the activity to the Lynx/INC Ransomware Group, lists C2 at 45.131.66.106, and links CVE-2026-24858 to the related FortiBleed 14-agent framework campaign.

Cyber Security News13:24 UTC · 44m agoRansomware in the wild 2 sources CVE-2025-3248 CVE-2026-24858

New SETTRA Ransomware Uses MeshAgent RMM and BYOVD to Encrypt Windows Systemsnew

Huntress reports new Settra ransomware hit retail and manufacturing firms, using MeshAgent RMM, BYOVD, and Windows utilities to encrypt systems and block recovery.

Huntress investigated two Settra intrusions: a consumer services and retail organization in July 2026 and a manufacturing firm in September 2026, showing nearly identical post-compromise behavior. Operators installed the MeshAgent RMM, ran ransomware executables named after the victim domain (_win64.exe), encrypted files with .locked or .locked_wip extensions, and dropped RESTORE_FILES.txt ransom notes. In both cases attackers cleared Windows Event Logs, disabled the Windows Recovery Environment, and used DiskPart to remove the recovery partition; the July case also ran Cipher to overwrite free space and flushed DNS cache. The September incident added BYOVD using gdrv.sys, and initial access was suspected via VPNs or previously stolen credentials, though unconfirmed.

Cyber Security News13:44 UTC · 23m agoRansomware in the wild 3 sources

Feral Wolf Hackers Exploit Confluence and 1C to Deploy GenieLocker Ransomware

Feral Wolf exploited Atlassian Confluence and 1C:Enterprise flaws to deploy GenieLocker ransomware across Russian retail, construction, manufacturing and IT firms.

BI.ZONE DFIR tracked Feral Wolf intrusions at Russian retail, construction, manufacturing, and IT organizations from May through August 2026. The actor exploited CVE-2023-22515 on internet-facing Confluence instances, deployed GSocket and Rust-based MQTTDoor/MatrixDoor backdoors using MQTT and Matrix C2, and used PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) and Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) for privilege escalation and container-to-host escape. The group abused exposed 1C:Enterprise cluster managers and weak PostgreSQL credentials to move laterally before deploying GenieLocker ransomware.

GBHackers13:02 UTC · 1h agoRansomware in the wild 2 sources CVE-2023-22515 CVE-2021-4034 CVE-2026-31431

Canada: Nipigon hospital hit by ransomware attack

Nipigon District Memorial Hospital in Ontario, Canada confirmed a ransomware attack disrupted its IT systems, possibly affecting some patient services.

Nipigon District Memorial Hospital in Nipigon, Ontario announced that a ransomware attack affected its information technology systems. The hospital described the event as a 'cyber security incident' and warned that some patient services may be impacted while it responds. Nipigon Mayor Suzanne Kukko commented on the incident to local media. No threat actor was named and no data exposure or leak was confirmed at the time of disclosure.

DataBreaches.netSep 16, 22:47 UTC · 1d agoRansomware in the wild

Payroll system of mosques, madrasahs hit by ransomware; staff details potentially compromised

Ransomware hit Avelogic's SmartHRMS payroll system serving Singapore mosques and madrasahs under MUIS, potentially exposing staff details.

The SmartHRMS human resources and payroll system used by mosques and madrasahs overseen by Singapore's Islamic Religious Council (MUIS) was hacked and held for ransom. The system is supplied by Singapore-based software vendor Avelogic, which posted a cybersecurity incident notice on its website. Staff details are potentially compromised, according to The Straits Times.

DataBreaches.netSep 15, 22:08 UTC · 2d agoRansomware in the wild