Ransomware: The Sleeping Giant at Black Hat

Black Hat 2025 takeaways emphasize that agentic AI will dramatically accelerate and automate ransomware operations—turning them into faster, adaptive campaigns that can outpace human-led defenses. The report argues ransomware has become an industrialized, specialized ecosystem (RaaS) capable of bypassing modern security stacks and calls for purpose-built anti-ransomware solutions that detect early-stage intrusion activity and enable machine-speed containment; it also contains a vendor promotional insertion for Halcyon.