This month in safety with Tony Anscombe – March 2026 version

The previous 4 weeks have seen a slew of recent cybersecurity wake-up calls that confirmed why each group wants a well-thought-out cyber-resilience plan

31 Mar 2026

As March 2026 attracts to an in depth, ESET Chief Safety Evangelist Tony Anscombe seems at a number of the prime cybersecurity tales that made the information this month and provides insights that they could maintain on your cyber-defenses. This is Tony’s rundown of a few of what stood out most over the 4 or so weeks:

• The medtech large Stryker fell sufferer to a cyberattack that was claimed by the Iran-linked Handala hacktivist group and reportedly wiped “over 200,000 methods, servers, and cell gadgets” and stole 50 terabytes of knowledge,
• Analysis by the Google Risk Intelligence Group has discovered that suspected information theft was current in no fewer than 77% of ransomware assaults in 2025 (up from 57% the yr prior) and that attackers are more and more counting on built-in Home windows utilities,
• Beginning in Could, Instagram will cease encrypting non-public messages between customers,
• A Europol-led operation has taken down the Tycoon 2FA phishing platform that as much as the center of 2025 accounted for 62% of all phishing makes an attempt blocked by Microsoft,

What are a number of the classes companies ought to take away from these information tales? Watch the video to be taught extra and you’ll want to try the February 2026 version of Tony’s month-to-month safety information roundup, in addition to his highlights from the RSAC 2026 convention that wrapped up just some days in the past.