Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In early July 2026, researchers at Sysdig published an analysis of what they assess to be the first documented case of agentic ransomware. The threat actor, which Sysdig calls JADEPUFFER, launched an extortion attack driven end to end by a large language model (LLM) rather than a conventional human-operated toolkit.

IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that 97% of organizations that experienced an artificial intelligence (AI)-related security incident lacked proper access controls on AI systems. The same report highlighted that 63% of organizations lacked governance policies to manage AI or prevent shadow AI. Despite those statistics, AI is now deeply embedded in workflows across critical business functions. Employees are using public AI tools to work faster.