10/14/2026
1 bad assumption drives a lot of ransomware damage: thinking the incident stays inside the server room.
Per The Register, some gangs are escalating pressure with personal threats aimed at executives and their families. That changes the business impact fast. Leadership attention gets pulled off operations, legal decisions get rushed, and downtime gets more expensive by the hour.
What resilient firms do differently is simple. They decide in advance who has authority, how extortion gets handled, what outside counsel and IR support are on deck, and how employees are protected if threats turn personal.
Ticket-queue IT is too slow for this kind of pressure campaign.
Read it here: https://tcc.onl/87MYpTgW
What part of your incident plan needs the most work right now: decision-making, communications, or recovery?