Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

With attackers now logging in instead of hacking in, securing your identity infrastructure is more critical than ever. Relying on a patchwork of tools for Active Directory and Entra ID creates dangerous blind spots and slows your response to threats.

Ransomware isn’t just about locking files anymore; attackers like Scattered Spider can take entire backup systems offline. Joe Hladik explains how hypervisor encryption lets them access virtualization interfaces and encrypt entire ESXi clusters, leaving organizations with no way to recover. Joe lays out why this tactic is so dangerous: it turns a backup, your last line of defense, into another point of failure.

Identity-based ransomware is no longer a fringe tactic; it’s becoming the playbook of today’s most dangerous adversaries. Scattered Spider, a financially motivated e-crime group, has shifted the model from smash-and-grab encryption to a far more devastating combination of double extortion, social engineering, and hypervisor encryption attacks.