Building a Security Strategy for AI-Powered Ransomware Attacks
Summary: AI has cut the time to create a phishing email from 16 hours to 5 minutes, according to IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report cited in this article, and reconnaissance that once took hours now takes minutes. The piece cites the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report naming phishing, vulnerability exploitation and credential abuse among the most common access vectors, and the 2026 Kaseya Email Security Report putting business email compromise losses at $2.8 billion with an average loss of $129,193 per incident.
Key Takeaway: Attackers can move from a phishing email to a compromised account in minutes, then spend hours or days expanding access before triggering ransomware - and they deliberately target backups, which is why the article argues immutable backups and regularly tested recovery are no longer optional.
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