Should you care about an “AI slowdown?”

Cisco Talos’ weekly intelligence update describes a near 5% rise in ransomware incidents in Japan driven by two groups—The Gentlemen (ransomware-as-a-service) and Qilin (using generative AI)—and highlights multiple active threats and malware telemetry (including SHA256/MD5 indicators), Android banking malware, a new Windows RAT, and recent large-scale Apple patches; it recommends hardening internet-accessible devices, enforcing MFA, endpoint detection, and applying provided Snort rules to detect and block activity.