The previous 4 weeks have seen a slew of recent cybersecurity wake-up calls that confirmed why each group wants a well-thought-out cyber-resilience plan
31 Mar 2026
As March 2026 attracts to an in depth, ESET Chief Safety Evangelist Tony Anscombe seems at a few of the high cybersecurity tales that made the information this month and affords insights that they might maintain to your cyber-defenses. This is Tony’s rundown of a few of what stood out most over the 4 or so weeks:
- The medtech large Stryker fell sufferer to a cyberattack that was claimed by the Iran-linked Handala hacktivist group and reportedly wiped “over 200,000 techniques, servers, and cellular gadgets” and stole 50 terabytes of knowledge,
- Analysis by the Google Menace Intelligence Group has discovered that suspected knowledge theft was current in no fewer than 77% of ransomware assaults in 2025 (up from 57% the 12 months prior) and that attackers are more and more counting on built-in Home windows utilities,
- Beginning in Could, Instagram will cease encrypting personal messages between customers,
- A Europol-led operation has taken down the Tycoon 2FA phishing platform that as much as the center of 2025 accounted for 62% of all phishing makes an attempt blocked by Microsoft,
What are a few of the classes companies ought to take away from these information tales? Watch the video to study extra and remember to take a look at the February 2026 version of Tony’s month-to-month safety information roundup, in addition to his highlights from the RSAC 2026 convention that wrapped up only a few days in the past.
