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“Security must not be a bottleneck, it should enable the business.” MÚTUA protects 133,000+ engineering, agronomy and geoscience professionals across Brazil with Sophos: unified endpoint, network and MDR coverage, faster containment and 24/7 monitoring. assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/a…
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Your network is the foundation of your business. Can it keep pace? As encrypted and AI-enabled traffic grows, you shouldn’t have to choose between performance and protection. See why performance and connected defense now belong together: sophos.com/en-us/blog/securi…
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Heads up, ScreenConnect users: we’re seeing malicious activity involving unauthorized deployments. Sophos MDR is actively hunting. Check for unexpected deployments or remote commands, including from curl.exe or PowerShell. What we’re seeing + IOCs: sophos.com/en-us/blog/malici…
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Cybercrime keeps making headlines. French authorities attributed a cyberattack affecting hundreds of supermarket refrigeration systems to an Iran-linked group. Sophos’ Rafe Pilling spoke to the @WSJ about why attackers target systems like these. 🔗 wsj.com/world/europe/france-…
This image features a Sophos promotional graphic with a quote from The Wall Street Journal about a cyberattack on European fridges, suspected to be by Iran. The quote highlights the impact on refrigeration. There is a headshot of Rafe Pilling, identified as Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Sophos. The background is a blue digital pattern.

ALT This image features a Sophos promotional graphic with a quote from The Wall Street Journal about a cyberattack on European fridges, suspected to be by Iran. The quote highlights the impact on refrigeration. There is a headshot of Rafe Pilling, identified as Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Sophos. The background is a blue digital pattern.

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Good news: Retailers are recovering faster and paying ransoms less often. Bad news: 62% of ransomware attacks now encrypt data, up from 48% last year. Prevention still has ground to make up. Read the latest State of Ransomware in Retail 2026 report: sophos.com/en-us/blog/the-st…
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Most phishing attacks target credentials. Evil Tokens goes after an authenticated Microsoft 365 session. Watch Marlene Jones break down session theft and how Sophos MDR stopped a real-world attack before the token could be abused. Learn more: sophos.com/en-us/resources/m…
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AI is moving beyond experimentation in cyberattacks. Sophos Counter Threat Unit researchers found GOLD OGRE using AI to support Aur0ra ransomware operations, from network discovery to command execution and lateral movement. Read the full analysis: sophos.com/en-us/blog/ai-use…
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ALT Aurora borealis over mountains with text about Sophos X-Ops and Aur0ra ransomware. Includes a note on reading time and findings.

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How is AI changing network security? Join @chiesennegs, Dan Cole and Eric Hanselman to explore why the network is becoming the new frontline of cyber defense in the AI era. 📅 Nov. 17 Register today: events.sophos.com/network-la…
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Alert received. Investigation complete. Threat remediated. Sophos MDR helps Coleg Cambria investigate and respond to threats 24/7, reducing manual security work and giving its IT team more time to focus on students, staff and strategic priorities. 🔗 assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/a…
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44% of financial services ransomware victims blamed a security gap they already knew about but hadn’t closed, the highest rate of any sector surveyed. As attackers find vulnerabilities faster, closing known gaps matters more than ever. Read the report: sophos.com/en-us/blog/the-st…
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You tick a box to prove you’re human. A month later, Qilin ransom notes appear. The surprise: the fake check never installed the ransomware. The latest X-Ops Brief breaks down ClickFix, how the attack unfolded, and how to defend against it. ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=MquM0ZGG…
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The AI era demands more from your network. The new Sophos XGS Series 1U appliances deliver the performance and resilience you need, while Sophos Fusion connects your defenses so you can see more and respond faster. Built for the AI-era network. 🔗 sophos.com/en-us/blog/sophos…
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The network has to perform and defend at the same time. New from Sophos: 🔹 Firewall v23 with AI controls + AI Assistant 🔹 New XGS 1U appliances 🔹 Standalone NDR with Active Inline mode Engineered for performance. Connected for defense. Learn more: sophos.com/en-us/blog/securi…
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Hackers remotely heated supermarket fridges across Europe, forcing retailers to discard food. Sophos’ Rafe Pilling tells @CNBC that AI is likely to play a growing role in attacks like these: “It will become the norm and not an outlier.” Read more: cnbc.com/2026/11/03/supermar…
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What if the “breachpocalypse” is already here, and we’re just bad at measuring it? After 7 incidents in 7 days, Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar looks at the signals breach data may be missing, AI’s impact on attacker scale, and what defenders should do now. sophos.com/en-us/blog/the-br…
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38 minutes → 89 seconds. That’s the change in average threat response time Sophos MDR has seen using OpenAI models. Sophos CTO John Peterson joins Wana Tun from OpenAI to unpack AI in real-world security operations. 📅 October 28–29 👉 Register: events.sophos.com/sophos-ope…
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How do you cut security noise by 96% without adding complexity? @INEOS went from 3,000+ security events a month needing attention to around 120 in a bad month with Sophos MDR and Sophos Endpoint. See how they did it: youtube.com/watch?v=fBEDrWR3…
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Your people want to move fast with AI. Security’s job is to make that safe. What’s slowing AI adoption in your organization?
50%🔒 Security & data risk
25%👀 No visibility into AI
25%📋 No clear AI policy
0%🚀 Nothing, we’re all in
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Scale AI adoption without giving up visibility or control. Unapproved AI tools and agents are already in use. Sophos AI Defense finds that activity, identifies what introduces risk, and enforces policy in real time. See how Sophos AI Defense works: sophos.com/en-us/products/ai…
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Roughly 1 in 10,000 organizations has a dedicated CISO. Most manage cyber risk without one. Matt Helling, Product Director of CISO Advantage at Sophos, explains how to build a structured cybersecurity program without a security leader. Learn more: sophos.com/en-us/blog/ciso-a…
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