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By Sophos
Malicious email is the leading attack method, and recovery costs now average $2.26 million.
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By Nate Drier
Outdated protocols, forgotten configurations, and legacy dependencies continue to create opportunities for attackers in modern environments. This research explores how NetNTLMv1 can still be leveraged today and how improvements in attack tooling are reducing the cost and complexity of exploiting it.
Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers investigated a June 2026 campaign in which threat actors used the Deno JavaScript runtime as a core execution mechanism within a ClickFix-driven intrusion chain. On June 3 and June 4, compromised WordPress sites served Cloudflare-themed ClickFix lures that prompted users to execute a clipboard-delivered PowerShell command. This command initiated an MSI-based staging process that installed Deno and enabled retrieval and execution of remote JavaScript.
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By Sophos
A dedicated channel partnership brings frontier AI to the channel and service providers through Sophos Fusion, powering new security services partners can build on.
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By Sophos
Built for a threat landscape reshaped by AI, Sophos Fusion unites security operations, endpoint, network security, identity, email, and cloud into one defense system that prevents, detects, investigates, and responds at AI speed.
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By Mitch Pronschinske
The State of Ransomware 2026: Payments are dropping but encryption is climbing Insights from 2,158 IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries whose organizations were hit by ransomware in the past year. This year's data has a few eyebrow-raising departures from the patterns of past State of Ransomware reports. Exploited vulnerabilities lost their three-year grip on the top root-cause spot. Median ransom demands and payments both dropped, yet the average recovery bill still climbed.
On July 14, 2026, SonicWall disclosed two vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances. Models 6210, 7210, and 8200v are affected. CVE-2026-15409 is a critical (CVSS score of 10.0) unauthenticated server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw that allows an attacker to force the appliance to make requests to unintended destinations.
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By Raja Patel
The stack had a good run. Defense systems are the future. Introducing Sophos Fusion, the industry’s most complete AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System. Something shifted in late 2025 that I don't think our industry has fully reckoned with yet.
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By Chris McCormack
Sophos Firewall v22 MR2 is now available AI app control, PQC detection, enhanced Chromebook support, and more. Sophos Firewall v22 bolstered Secure by Design, taking it to a whole new level with major updates to the architecture and new features like the Health Check to help identify high-risk configurations. Sophos Firewall v22 MR1 added several enhancements, including a new set of NDR detections for active threats.
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By Justin Han
Sophos named a 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Email Security Sophos’ first ever recognition as a Customers’ Choice for Email Security. Sophos has been named a 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Email Security. This marks Sophos’ entry into the report, as well as Sophos’ first ever Customers’ Choice distinction for Email Security.
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By Sophos
AI speed. Human judgment. Fully managed. Sophos MDR: the world's largest agentic SOC. Speak with an expert.
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By Sophos
Sophos Fusion isn't another platform. It's an AI-native cyber defense system that connects security controls, intelligence, data, services, and human expertise into one coordinated defense. Watch Raja Patel explain the foundation of Sophos Fusion and how it's built for the AI era.
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By Sophos
A step-by-step tutorial showing you how to define your Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) authorized contacts and threat response mode in Sophos Central. As a Sophos MDR customer, assigning authorized contacts lets you fully utilize the service. This instructs the Sophos MDR Operations team who to contact and how to take action during an active threat. You're prompted to take these steps in Sophos Central after activating a new Sophos MDR license, and you can modify this information at any time.
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By Sophos
A criminal talked commercial AI models past their guardrails. Then stood up a "company" of AI agents that engineered, tested and refined malware. It began when Sophos analysts found a folder named "test" on an endpoint nobody recognised. Inside was the front end of a machine: Cobalt Strike profiles, a Telegram command channel, a hidden Sliver server behind Cloudflare and scripts written with the help of AI.
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By Sophos
Sophos Fusion is not a platform. It's not a stack. It sees everything, connects everything, and enables your defenses to respond as one. It’s the industry’s most complete cyber defense system, engineered for a world where threats move at AI speed.
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By Sophos
Sophos AI Defense helps you understand how AI is used across your organization, apply guardrails, and reduce risk using the Sophos security controls you already have.
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By Sophos
Sophos Fusion sees everything, connects everything, and enables your defenses to respond as one. It’s the industry’s most complete cyber defense system, engineered for a world where threats move at AI speed.
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By Sophos
Introducing Sophos CISO Advantage. Its agentic AI assesses your specific environment, identifies the gaps that actually matter to your business, and builds a structured, prioritized program of continuous improvement — one that business leaders can understand, support, and trust.
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By Sophos
In this episode of Sophos Cyber Shorts, host Susie Evershed is joined by Ross McKerchar, Sophos CISO, to discuss the recent OpenAI and Hugging Face incident and what it reveals about the future of AI security. From containment failures and over-privileged AI workflows to faster AI-driven attacks, Ross shares practical advice for security leaders on how to strengthen resilience, response, and recovery.
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By Sophos
Turn compliance complexity into your operational advantage. One system. Full historical context. Predictable cost. Sophos Next-Gen SIEM: Learn more at sophos.com/ng-siem.
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By Sophos
This white paper reveals the attack techniques most likely to drive highimpact incidents - and provides practical advice on how to stop them. By learning from realworld attacks, businesses can strengthen their resilience and meaningfully reduce their cyber risk.
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By Sophos
369 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the ransomware realities for financial services providers today. The report examines how the causes and consequences of ransomware attacks on financial services providers have evolved over time. This year's edition also sheds light on previously unexplored areas, including the organizational factors that left providers exposed and the human toll ransomware takes on IT and cybersecurity teams in the financial services sector.
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By Sophos
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are essential for detecting and responding to cyber threats, but building the right model isn't one-size-fits-all. With talent shortages and rising threat complexity, many organizations are rethinking how to scale security operations. This guide breaks down the pros, cons, and trade-offs of in-house, hybrid, and outsourced SOC models. Find the SOC strategy that fits your needs, risk profile, and available resources.
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