{"id":8144,"date":"2026-03-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/2026\/03\/31\/this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-march-2026-edition\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:00:00","slug":"this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-march-2026-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/2026\/03\/31\/this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-march-2026-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This month in security with Tony Anscombe \u2013 March 2026 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As March 2026 draws to a close, ESET Chief Security Evangelist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/our-experts\/tony-anscombe\/index.html\">Tony Anscombe<\/a> looks at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news this month and offers insights that they may hold for your cyber-defenses. Here&#8217;s Tony&#8217;s rundown of some of what stood out most over the four or so weeks:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The medtech giant Stryker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/stryker-attack-wiped-tens-of-thousands-of-devices-no-malware-needed\/\">fell victim<\/a> to a cyberattack that was claimed by the Iran-linked Handala hacktivist group and reportedly wiped \u201cover 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices\u201d and stole 50 terabytes of data,<\/li>\n<li>Research by the Google Threat Intelligence Group has <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/threat-intelligence\/ransomware-ttps-shifting-threat-landscape\">found<\/a> that suspected data theft was present in no fewer than 77% of ransomware attacks in 2025 (up from 57% the year prior) and that attackers are increasingly relying on built-in Windows utilities,<\/li>\n<li>Starting in May, Instagram will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/18\/instagram-to-remove-end-to-end-encryption-for-private-messages-in-may\">stop encrypting<\/a> private messages between users,<\/li>\n<li>A Europol-led operation has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/media-press\/newsroom\/news\/global-phishing-service-platform-taken-down-in-coordinated-public-private-action\">taken down<\/a> the Tycoon 2FA phishing platform that up to the middle of 2025 accounted for 62% of all phishing attempts blocked by Microsoft,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are some of the lessons businesses should take away from these news stories? Watch the video to learn more and be sure to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/month-security-tony-anscombe-february-2026\/index.html\">February 2026 edition<\/a> of Tony&#8217;s monthly security news roundup, as well as his highlights from the RSAC 2026 conference that wrapped up just a few days ago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wls-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/videos\/month-security-tony-anscombe-march-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full analysis on WeLiveSecurity \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past four weeks have seen a slew of new cybersecurity wake-up calls that showed why every organization needs a well-thought-out cyber-resilience plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}