
2026 Q1 Enterprise Ransomware Observations: Attack Surface and Incident Response Lessons
Three anonymized cases: real ransomware incidents in Q1. In the first three months of the year, ransomware assistance requests we received were up nearly 40% versus the second half of last year. Most companies’ IT leads instinctively say “our firewall was expensive,” but on site the problem often lies with the weakest link. **Case 1: A precision manufacturing company in Shunyi** had just deployed an MES system before the New Year. Attackers exploited the system’s def…

