Archive for June 4, 2026

Anubis Gang Claims MS Singing River Health System With Graphic Proof Pack 

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Comparitech is reporting that the cybercriminal group Anubis today claimed responsibility for a data breach at Singing River Health System in Jackson County, MS. Singing River last month notified 53,888 people of a December 2025 data breach that compromised names, SSNs, bank account info, medical info, health insurance info, treatment and diagnostic info, and more. 

Commenting on this news is Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech: 

“Anubis’s proof pack for this claim is a disturbing one, with intimate and graphic images of patients and their surgeries/injuries. This just serves as a stark reminder of the level these cybercriminals will stoop to in order to try to secure a ransom payment. While we don’t know whether or not Singing River negotiated with Anubis or not, the fact that Anubis has come forward just as SRHS has started issuing notifications suggests negotiations could have failed and Anubis is carrying out its threat.”

Mark my words. This is the first of many attacks that we will see from Anubis. The proof pack is the big hint that there is more to come.

May Ransomware Attacks: Education on the Rise and Healthcare on the Decline

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Comparitech researchers published a new study looking at all tracked ransomware attacks in the month of May 2026. According to the findings, attacks increased by just over three percent since April, but remained relatively low compared to the previous months of the year. 

Interestingly, it was found that attacks on the education sector increased significantly from April (up by 54%), while helathcare providers and utilities companies saw the largest decline in attacks (down 21% and 29% respectively).

Key findings for May 2026 include: 

  • 661 attacks in total — 48 confirmed attacks (confirmed by the entity involved)
  • The most prolific ransomware gangs were Qilin (97), The Gentlemen (71), and DragonForce (51)
  • Qilin had the most confirmed attacks (9), followed by The Gentlemen (4) and INC (3)
  • Nearly 115 TB of data was stolen across all of these attacks
  • The US saw the most attacks (272), followed by Canada (31), the United Kingdom (28), and Germany (26)

Additionally, Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech, commented: 

“While we should take some comfort in the fact that attack figures remained low(er) again in May, it’s important to remember that these figures are still incredibly high, particularly when compared to previous years. Furthermore, this slight reprieve isn’t being witnessed across all sectors and illustrates how hackers are often targeting specific sectors at certain times. For example, May saw a spike in the number of attacks being carried out in the education sector. This may not be a coincidence. As schools and teachers look forward to the holidays, hackers likely see this as a great opportunity to worm their way in while everyone’s starting to unwind and maybe isn’t as focused as usual.”

For full details, including a breakdown of most prolific ransomware gangs, the countries most targeted, and some of the most stand-out ransomware attacks of the month, the research can be read here: https://www.comparitech.com/news/ransomware-roundup-may-2026/

Rogers Ranked Canada’s Best 5G+ Network

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Rogers Communications today announced that it has once again been ranked the best and most reliable 5G+ network by umlaut.

Umlaut is a global leader in independent network performance benchmarking. The ranking is based on umlaut’s Mobile Certificate and Audit Report, which show Rogers wireless customers enjoy the best network performance in the country.

In addition to being awarded the “Best in Test” wireless benchmark award for the eighth straight year, Rogers scored the top performance in voice, data and reliability for wireless networks.  Rogers has led on umlaut’s most reliable wireless network ranking since it was first introduced in 2021.

5G+ is the latest 5G technology, delivered through mid-band spectrum. Rogers 5G+ is powered by 3800 MHz and 3500 MHz spectrum, providing customers with faster speeds and more capacity. This mid-band spectrum complements Rogers 600 MHz low-band 5G spectrum, creating consistent and reliable 5G coverage.

Radiant Logic Extends its Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform (IVIP) to the Agentic Enterprise with Continuous, Real-Time Risk Scoring

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Radiant Logic today announced new agentic AI capabilities that establish the company as the only platform-agnostic authority that inventories, continuously scores risk, and controls AI agents across every ecosystem, regardless of where they were built, who built them, or what platform they run on. The platform observes agent behavior in real time, recalculates per-agent risk as posture, privilege, and context change, and triggers remediation before the blast radius compounds.

As organizations adopt AI agents at scale, security leaders face a Three-Identity Problem: the simultaneous challenge of governing employees, the digital workloads they rely on and the AI agents now acting on their behalf. Unlike prior waves of identity, AI agents chain all three together, and that chain often outlives the employee who created it. When an owner changes roles or leaves, the agent keeps running, its accumulated access persists, and accountability disappears. This Uncontrolled Inheritance Chain is one of the fastest-emerging blind spots in enterprise security.

Compounding the problem is platform fragmentation. Every major hyperscaler is building a native agent registry, and none federates across the others. Enterprises running agents on three or more platforms have no unified view of what exists, who owns it or what it can reach.

The release extends Radiant Logic’s proven Unify → Observe → Act framework to AI agents through three capabilities:

  • Complete Agent Visibility —Inventories every AI agent across the enterprise as an authoritative record; captures configuration, approved LLM engine and accessible resources; renders the relationship graph of agent-to-agent, agent-to-tool and agent-to-data dependencies; and links every agent to its human owner and the workloads it has accumulated.
  • Security Posture Assessment — Validates configuration hygiene, detects stale and orphaned agents; analyzes privilege against the agent’s purpose; and produces a continuous, per-agent risk score that updates in real time as configuration, privilege, ownership, and behavior change, with a prioritized remediation path consistent with Radiant Logic’s operating principle for agentic security: AI recommends, humans approve, systems enforce
  • Vendor-Neutral, Cross-Platform Coverage — Federates across the leading agentic AI frameworks in use today, providing one source of truth without rip-and-replace; interoperates with existing identity, governance and access programs through the Shared Signals Framework, preserving prior investment.

Radiant Logic will demonstrate the new agentic AI identity security capabilities at Identiverse 2026, June 15–18, Booth #401. The agenda includes:

  • Keynote: “The Three Identity Problem: Surviving the Chaotic Era,” John Pritchard, CEO, June 16, 8:30 a.m., Oceanside Room.
  • Masterclass: “Identity Always Tattles: Detecting Attacks in Real Time Through the Lens of Identity Observability,” Anders Askåsen and Paul Dant, Radiant Logic, June 16, 11:40 a.m., Breakers J.
  • Sponsored session: “AI Agents Are Digital Workers: Start Governing Them Like It,” Akshay Srinivas Rajanbabu, Radiant Logic, June 16, 4:30 p.m.
  • Sponsored session featuring Customer Insights: “Reimagining IAM: Identity Data as the Engine of Zero Trust,” with AdventHealth, June 17, 2:35 p.m.

Attendees can register at events.identiverse.com/2026/register using code IDV26-RADIANT20 for a discount. An on-demand pre-event webinar, “Identities Under Attack: How Adversaries Exploit the Human–Machine–Agent Divide,” is available now.

To learn more, visit: What is Agentic AI Identity Security

 [JP3]At this point I’d lean into IVIP.

 [JP4]Radiant Logic, a pioneer of the Identity Data Fabric and a leader in Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), today announced new agentic AI capabilities that establish the company as the only platform-agnostic authority that inventories, continuously scores risk, and controls AI agents across every ecosystem, regardless of where they were built, who built them, or what platform they run on. The platform observes agent behavior in real time, recalculates per-agent risk as posture, privilege, and context change, and triggers remediation before the blast radius compounds.

 [BV5]Should we bolster this quote and the 10:1 ratio with some of the other stats in the Message House –  90% of Fortune 500 have active agent initiatives, 75% cite governance as deployment blocker, 5+ fragmented registries?

If so, here’s an idea:

“Twenty years ago, enterprises had dozens of user directories and no unified view, and we built the platform that solved it. Today, they face a similar challenge with five fragmented agentic registries covering roughly 70% of the market and none of which federates across the others. We’re solving it again, on the same vendor-neutral foundation, for the agentic identity class that will outnumber humans 10 to 1 by 2027.”

 [BV6]80%+ Of the Fortune 500 are deploying active AI agents in production*

*Microsoft Cyber Pulse, Feb 2026 — first-party telemetry, Copilot Studio + Agent Builder, Nov 2025

 [BV7]Will Identiverse registration will still be open when this press release goes out?