The Evolution of Ransomware and Cybercrime

Guest:

• Alex Pinto,  Associate Director of Threat Intelligence, Verizon Business, Lead the Verizon Data Breach Report

Topics:

• How would you define “a cloud breach”? Is that a real (and different) thing? 
• Are cloud breaches just a result of leaked keys and creds?
• If customers are responsible for 99% of cloud security problems, is cloud breach really about a customer being breached?
• Are misconfigurations really responsible for so many cloud security breaches? How are we still failing at configuration?
• What parts of DBIR are not total “groundhog day”?
• Something about vuln exploitation vs credential abuse in today’s breaches–what’s driving the shifts we’re seeing? DBIR
• Are we at peak ransomware? Will ransomware be here in 20 years? Will we be here in 20 years talking about it?
• How is AI changing the breach report, other than putting in hilarious footnotes about how the report is for humans to read and and is written by actual humans? 

Resources:

• Video (LinkedIn, YouTube)
• Verizon DBIR 2025
• EP222 From Post-IR Lessons to Proactive Security: Deconstructing Mandiant M-Trends
• EP205 Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality
• EP112 Threat Horizons - How Google Does Threat Intelligence
• EP223 AI Addressable, Not AI Solvable: Reflections from RSA 2025