{"id":30,"date":"2026-09-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/?p=30"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:00:00","slug":"ransomware-in-2026-extortion-without-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware in 2026: extortion without encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clear trend this year is pure data extortion: attackers quietly copy data out, then demand payment under threat of publishing it, selling it or reporting the victim to data protection regulators. Backups alone no longer answer the threat.<\/p>\n<h2>Common entry points<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>VPN or remote desktop accounts without MFA<\/li>\n<li>Unpatched vulnerabilities in internet-facing devices<\/li>\n<li>Passwords harvested by infostealer malware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to defend<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Enforce MFA on every remote access path<\/li>\n<li>Have the SOC watch for abnormal outbound data volumes<\/li>\n<li>Encrypt personal data and restrict who can reach it<\/li>\n<li>Prepare your 72-hour PDPC notification plan in advance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Trend analysis by the Cybershield Threat Intelligence team.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware groups increasingly steal data and threaten to leak it or report the victim to regulators, without encrypting anything. Hospitals and mid-sized businesses remain prime targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-threat-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}