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Ransomware is the Scoreboard
Recorded Future documented 13,000 ransomware victims over two years, with groups like Interlock and RansomHub continuing successful attacks despite existing defensive technologies such as attack path management tools. The article argues that defenders struggle because they focus on compliance checklists and vulnerability lists rather than modeling their environment as an interconnected graph of assets, configurations, and credentials that attackers actually traverse, and proposes that AI agents continuously recomputing attack paths at adversarial speed could improve defense.
Why it matters: Security leaders and practitioners must shift from vulnerability-centric defense to graph-based attack path modeling and prioritization to match the speed and opportunistic nature of ransomware operations, which have grown more effective at exploiting misconfigurations and identity-based weaknesses regardless of patch status.
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