…at the time. It turned out to be the difference between a contained event and a ransomware attack that could have crippled operations for weeks. The lesson has never left me: resilience is decided in the moments before certainty arrives, when leaders must act on incomplete information, ahead of the crisis, not after it…

…at cloud security firm Sysdig said they'd documented the first known case of "agentic ransomware." It was an extortion operation, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent - not a human - handled the technical execution of a real-world cyberattack from start to finish. The agent broke into a vulnerable server, stole cred…

…cost the continent over $3 billion since 2019. South Africa alone recorded nearly 18,000 ransomware detections in 2025, the highest in Africa. Mastercard also noted that the country accounts for 29% of the continent’s ransomware attacks and 40% of phishing incidents. Who wins here? Banks, fintechs, and governments that…