During the Celtic year of Windows 20H2, cyber vampires infiltrated government offices, cutting off fuel supplies, and driving hospitals back to paper. Sometimes they arrived in a signed update, other times they just needed a password without a second factor. And if you didn't click on anything, your phone could get spyware even without this minor cooperation.
At the beginning of November, ransomware crippled the gaming company Capcom. The attackers got into the network in October through an older backup VPN device that the company had left running due to the onslaught of remote work. This was followed by the theft of personal and corporate data and the encryption of files in American and Japanese offices. Among other things, email and file servers were affected. The emergency backup of the connection thus became an emergency exit for data.