Coca-Cola on Thursday said it is investigating a ransomware attack that impacted its Fairlife dairy unit and has suspended production at the company's U.S. production facilities. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,

Coca-Cola halts the US operations of its dairy company fairlife due to a ransomware attack.

Two rival ransomware groups are driving a new baseline of roughly 2,500 attacks per quarter as hackers make growing use of AI. Hackers leaned further into ransomware in the second quarter of 2026, with a surge of new attacks led by two competing ransomware-as-a-service groups.

The first AI agent ran a ransomware attack end to end, signaling a shift to machine-speed cyberattacks and autonomous defense.

Ransomware cyberattacks are a major category of cyber threats targeting digital and cyber-physical systems that depend on data availability and system integrity. In PV environments, where continuous monitoring and control are required, ransomware can ...

Research of incidents by Sophos finds that phishing, brute force attacks and other identity-based threats have surpassed software vulnerabilities as means of delivering ransomware

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, database encryption and even ransom note generation.

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.

Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted entirely by a large language model (LLM) agent.

Cybercrime group demands $1.9 million in ransom following a cyber attack at Mount Royal University in Calgary that leaked student and employee data and disrupted operations.