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Agentic Ransomware Took Down Enterprise in Ten Hours: AI Left 80-Page Audit

DataBreaches.net · · International · Data Breaches

Roger Satterfield reports: An attacker handed an unknown corporate victim a comprehensive, 80-page security audit on Wednesday — not as a service, but as a postscript to the ransomware attack that had just consumed the victim’s enterprise. According to Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence unit Unit 42, whose researchers documented the September 2 incident, the... Source

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