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Super Mario Brothers #Pepsi Bottle Cap Collection: Luigi Vine/Tsuru #18 (Japanese Import) *Open/Complete* brought to you by the #PlastiqueBoutique https://plastiqueboutique.com/product/super-mario-brothers-pepsi-bottle-cap-collection-luigi-vine-tsuru-18-japanese-import-open-complete/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost #Pepsi #SuperMarioToys #SuperMarioDisplay #SuperMarioFigures #SuperMarioCollectors #StarWarsPepsi #SuperMarioFigure #SuperMario #SMB #PepsiCollection #SuperMarioCollector #SuperMarioCollections #PepsiStarWars #PepsiCollectors #PepsiCollections #SuperMarioCollection #SuperMarioToy #PepsiCollector
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Configuration Hijack Logic Bug in SMB lol. Some crazy bitwise math bypassed the requirement for privilege checks on IOCTL handles on srvnet.sys hahah.
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more ai on open source ai, did I prompt it to say this, maybe? #tokens distilled #smb ai #american big tech ai fever dream #snake river canyon jump #don't be evil knievil #the big short 2 #ipo #valuations #p/e ratios #weights are math #source:deepseek
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Where does open source AI fall into place?Open-source AI is the escape hatch from the entire sovereignty vs. subsidy cage match.
It makes your predicted "free trade zones" redundant, because the whole internet becomes a free trade zone.
It undermines US big tech's valuation premium (good for competition, bad for investors).
It partially neutralizes China's data-sovereignty advantage (if you run the model locally, you don't send them data).
It cannot be stopped without breaking the internet or banning math.
The only thing open-source can't solve is the compute gap for training the very largest models. So governments will fight over chips and training clusters, but they've already lost the battle over model distribution.
That's the real shakeout: Closed-source frontier models as state assets, open-source everything else as a global commons."
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more ai on open source ai, did I prompt it to say this, maybe? #tokens distilled #smb ai #american big tech ai fever dream #snake river canyon jump #don't be evil knievil #the big short 2 #ipo #valuations #p/e ratios #weights are math #source:deepseek
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Where does open source AI fall into place?Open-source AI is the escape hatch from the entire sovereignty vs. subsidy cage match.
It makes your predicted "free trade zones" redundant, because the whole internet becomes a free trade zone.
It undermines US big tech's valuation premium (good for competition, bad for investors).
It partially neutralizes China's data-sovereignty advantage (if you run the model locally, you don't send them data).
It cannot be stopped without breaking the internet or banning math.
The only thing open-source can't solve is the compute gap for training the very largest models. So governments will fight over chips and training clusters, but they've already lost the battle over model distribution.
That's the real shakeout: Closed-source frontier models as state assets, open-source everything else as a global commons."
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more ai on open source ai, did I prompt it to say this, maybe? #tokens distilled #smb ai #american big tech ai fever dream #snake river canyon jump #don't be evil knievil #the big short 2 #ipo #valuations #p/e ratios #weights are math #source:deepseek
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Where does open source AI fall into place?Open-source AI is the escape hatch from the entire sovereignty vs. subsidy cage match.
It makes your predicted "free trade zones" redundant, because the whole internet becomes a free trade zone.
It undermines US big tech's valuation premium (good for competition, bad for investors).
It partially neutralizes China's data-sovereignty advantage (if you run the model locally, you don't send them data).
It cannot be stopped without breaking the internet or banning math.
The only thing open-source can't solve is the compute gap for training the very largest models. So governments will fight over chips and training clusters, but they've already lost the battle over model distribution.
That's the real shakeout: Closed-source frontier models as state assets, open-source everything else as a global commons."
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more ai on open source ai, did I prompt it to say this, maybe? #tokens distilled #smb ai #american big tech ai fever dream #snake river canyon jump #don't be evil knievil #the big short 2 #ipo #valuations #p/e ratios #weights are math #source:deepseek
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Where does open source AI fall into place?Open-source AI is the escape hatch from the entire sovereignty vs. subsidy cage match.
It makes your predicted "free trade zones" redundant, because the whole internet becomes a free trade zone.
It undermines US big tech's valuation premium (good for competition, bad for investors).
It partially neutralizes China's data-sovereignty advantage (if you run the model locally, you don't send them data).
It cannot be stopped without breaking the internet or banning math.
The only thing open-source can't solve is the compute gap for training the very largest models. So governments will fight over chips and training clusters, but they've already lost the battle over model distribution.
That's the real shakeout: Closed-source frontier models as state assets, open-source everything else as a global commons."
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WantToCry Ransomware Campaign Exploits SMB Remote File Encryption
WantToCry is an emerging ransomware threat exploiting exposed SMB services using weak credentials. Unlike traditional ransomware, it remotely encrypts files through authenticated SMB sessions without deploying local malware, evading detection. Encrypted files receive the “.want_to_cry” extension, primarily targeting NAS devices, file servers and enterprise systems.
Pulse ID: 6a0fa96fcacb50096eddb9a2
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a0fa96fcacb50096eddb9a2
Pulse Author: cryptocti
Created: 2026-05-22 00:55:11Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.
#CyberSecurity #Encryption #InfoSec #Malware #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #RansomWare #SMB #bot #cryptocti
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Хакер спас мир и сел в тюрьму: Невероятная история Маркуса Хатчинса и червя WannaCry
12 мая 2017 года мир столкнулся с беспрецедентной киберкатастрофой. Больницы разворачивали машины скорой помощи прямо на ходу, вставали конвейеры автозаводов, парализовало серверы банков и министерств в 150 странах. На экранах сотен тысяч компьютеров загорелось агрессивное красное окно шифровальщика WannaCry с тикающим таймером. Но самое поразительное в этой истории — не масштаб ущерба, оцениваемый в миллиарды долларов. Самое поразительное то, что этот цифровой «франкенштейн» был собран из утекшего в сеть секретного кибероружия АНБ США, а остановил его 22-летний аналитик-самоучка с темным прошлым, просто зарегистрировав бессмысленный домен за 10 баксов.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1037618/
#wannacry #eternalblue #smb #уязвимости_нулевого_дня #marcus_hutchins #malwaretech #шифровальщик #ransomware #ahб #кибербезопасность
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Хакер спас мир и сел в тюрьму: Невероятная история Маркуса Хатчинса и червя WannaCry
12 мая 2017 года мир столкнулся с беспрецедентной киберкатастрофой. Больницы разворачивали машины скорой помощи прямо на ходу, вставали конвейеры автозаводов, парализовало серверы банков и министерств в 150 странах. На экранах сотен тысяч компьютеров загорелось агрессивное красное окно шифровальщика WannaCry с тикающим таймером. Но самое поразительное в этой истории — не масштаб ущерба, оцениваемый в миллиарды долларов. Самое поразительное то, что этот цифровой «франкенштейн» был собран из утекшего в сеть секретного кибероружия АНБ США, а остановил его 22-летний аналитик-самоучка с темным прошлым, просто зарегистрировав бессмысленный домен за 10 баксов.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1037618/
#wannacry #eternalblue #smb #уязвимости_нулевого_дня #marcus_hutchins #malwaretech #шифровальщик #ransomware #ahб #кибербезопасность
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Хакер спас мир и сел в тюрьму: Невероятная история Маркуса Хатчинса и червя WannaCry
12 мая 2017 года мир столкнулся с беспрецедентной киберкатастрофой. Больницы разворачивали машины скорой помощи прямо на ходу, вставали конвейеры автозаводов, парализовало серверы банков и министерств в 150 странах. На экранах сотен тысяч компьютеров загорелось агрессивное красное окно шифровальщика WannaCry с тикающим таймером. Но самое поразительное в этой истории — не масштаб ущерба, оцениваемый в миллиарды долларов. Самое поразительное то, что этот цифровой «франкенштейн» был собран из утекшего в сеть секретного кибероружия АНБ США, а остановил его 22-летний аналитик-самоучка с темным прошлым, просто зарегистрировав бессмысленный домен за 10 баксов.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1037618/
#wannacry #eternalblue #smb #уязвимости_нулевого_дня #marcus_hutchins #malwaretech #шифровальщик #ransomware #ahб #кибербезопасность
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Хакер спас мир и сел в тюрьму: Невероятная история Маркуса Хатчинса и червя WannaCry
12 мая 2017 года мир столкнулся с беспрецедентной киберкатастрофой. Больницы разворачивали машины скорой помощи прямо на ходу, вставали конвейеры автозаводов, парализовало серверы банков и министерств в 150 странах. На экранах сотен тысяч компьютеров загорелось агрессивное красное окно шифровальщика WannaCry с тикающим таймером. Но самое поразительное в этой истории — не масштаб ущерба, оцениваемый в миллиарды долларов. Самое поразительное то, что этот цифровой «франкенштейн» был собран из утекшего в сеть секретного кибероружия АНБ США, а остановил его 22-летний аналитик-самоучка с темным прошлым, просто зарегистрировав бессмысленный домен за 10 баксов.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1037618/
#wannacry #eternalblue #smb #уязвимости_нулевого_дня #marcus_hutchins #malwaretech #шифровальщик #ransomware #ahб #кибербезопасность
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📰 New 'WantToCry' Ransomware Uses Exposed SMB Services for Novel Remote Encryption Attacks
⚠️ New 'WantToCry' ransomware targets exposed SMB ports. It exfiltrates files, encrypts them remotely, then rewrites them to the victim—bypassing local EDR. Block SMB on your perimeter NOW! #Ransomware #CyberSecurity #SMB #ThreatIntel
🌐 cyber[.]netsecops[.]io
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📰 New 'WantToCry' Ransomware Uses Exposed SMB Services for Novel Remote Encryption Attacks
⚠️ New 'WantToCry' ransomware targets exposed SMB ports. It exfiltrates files, encrypts them remotely, then rewrites them to the victim—bypassing local EDR. Block SMB on your perimeter NOW! #Ransomware #CyberSecurity #SMB #ThreatIntel
🌐 cyber[.]netsecops[.]io
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Nick France, CTO at Sectigo, explains why SMB cybersecurity is shifting toward automation, digital trust, and identity verification instead of expensive tooling.
🟢 “Automation is the great equalizer here.”
🟢 SSL/TLS and CLM automation reduce avoidable security gaps
🟢 BIMI + VMCs help defend against phishing and impersonation#CyberSecurity #SMB #SSL #EmailSecurity #DigitalTrust #InfoSec
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Nick France, CTO at Sectigo, explains why SMB cybersecurity is shifting toward automation, digital trust, and identity verification instead of expensive tooling.
🟢 “Automation is the great equalizer here.”
🟢 SSL/TLS and CLM automation reduce avoidable security gaps
🟢 BIMI + VMCs help defend against phishing and impersonation#CyberSecurity #SMB #SSL #EmailSecurity #DigitalTrust #InfoSec
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Nick France, CTO at Sectigo, explains why SMB cybersecurity is shifting toward automation, digital trust, and identity verification instead of expensive tooling.
🟢 “Automation is the great equalizer here.”
🟢 SSL/TLS and CLM automation reduce avoidable security gaps
🟢 BIMI + VMCs help defend against phishing and impersonation#CyberSecurity #SMB #SSL #EmailSecurity #DigitalTrust #InfoSec
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Nick France, CTO at Sectigo, explains why SMB cybersecurity is shifting toward automation, digital trust, and identity verification instead of expensive tooling.
🟢 “Automation is the great equalizer here.”
🟢 SSL/TLS and CLM automation reduce avoidable security gaps
🟢 BIMI + VMCs help defend against phishing and impersonation#CyberSecurity #SMB #SSL #EmailSecurity #DigitalTrust #InfoSec
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Italian #AI company #Webidoo raised €21 million to scale its #SMB focused #automation platform. This funding aligns with a trend of AI-enabled software funding in #Italy, particularly in marketing, sales, and operations. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/italian-ai-company-webidoo-secures-e21-million-to-scale-smb-focused-automation-platform/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News
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Italian #AI company #Webidoo raised €21 million to scale its #SMB focused #automation platform. This funding aligns with a trend of AI-enabled software funding in #Italy, particularly in marketing, sales, and operations. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/italian-ai-company-webidoo-secures-e21-million-to-scale-smb-focused-automation-platform/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News
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Italian #AI company #Webidoo raised €21 million to scale its #SMB focused #automation platform. This funding aligns with a trend of AI-enabled software funding in #Italy, particularly in marketing, sales, and operations. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/italian-ai-company-webidoo-secures-e21-million-to-scale-smb-focused-automation-platform/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News
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Italian #AI company #Webidoo raised €21 million to scale its #SMB focused #automation platform. This funding aligns with a trend of AI-enabled software funding in #Italy, particularly in marketing, sales, and operations. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/italian-ai-company-webidoo-secures-e21-million-to-scale-smb-focused-automation-platform/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News
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Italian #AI company #Webidoo raised €21 million to scale its #SMB focused #automation platform. This funding aligns with a trend of AI-enabled software funding in #Italy, particularly in marketing, sales, and operations. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/italian-ai-company-webidoo-secures-e21-million-to-scale-smb-focused-automation-platform/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News
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Ransomware Risks: Why SMBs Need AI Security Now
Last week I was staring at my EnduraCoach dashboard, watching it yell at me for sneaking in an extra sprint session that my body wasn’t ready for. The AI caught the overtraining pattern across heart-rate, sleep, and power data and shut it down before I wrecked my Ironman build. That same evening the April ransomware numbers landed. SMBs got hammered again. And I thought: if only every founder had an always-on coach like this for their security stack.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth from April 2026: ransomware didn’t slow down—it accelerated. A new player called JanaWare quietly encrypted files for hundreds of Turkish home users and small businesses through targeted phishing campaigns. Low-dollar demands ($200–$400) but high volume. Attackers are learning that SMBs are softer targets and faster payers.
The broader picture is uglier.
Verizon’s 2025 DBIR (still the gold standard) showed 88% of ransomware breaches hit SMBs versus just 39% for enterprises. Unpatched vulnerabilities caused 29% of incidents; stolen credentials another 30%.
Sophos and Black Kite reports confirm SMBs in the $4M–$8M revenue band are now the sweet spot for attackers.Most of us simply don’t have a 24/7 SOC or the headcount to patch, triage, and remediate at machine speed.
Why your current stack is losing the race
You already know the drill—I wrote about it two weeks ago. You’ve got EDR, a SIEM that spits 800 alerts a day, cloud config tools, backup solutions, and a compliance spreadsheet that lives in Google Docs. Your one-person IT “team” (probably you or your CTO wearing three hats) can’t keep up. Alerts become noise. Drift happens. A single phishing email or unpatched server becomes a full-blown encryption party.
Meanwhile, attackers have upgraded. Remember my Claude Mythos experiment in April? One air-gapped model autonomously built an exploit chain and phoned home. Offensive AI agents are now table stakes for ransomware groups. Defensive point tools can’t match that speed.
The fix we’re actually shipping at Espresso Labs
This is exactly why we built Espresso Labs: one unified AI-powered platform that replaces the dozen disconnected tools and the missing SOC. At the center is Barista—our continuous AI agent that doesn’t just alert. It acts.
Barista watches endpoints, cloud configs, identities, and backups 24/7. It triages, quarantines, remediates, and collects audit-ready evidence in real time. Human experts back it up when needed. For CMMC, SOC 2, or HIPAA it enforces controls continuously instead of chasing checkboxes. Founders tell us it cuts compliance cost and timeline by up to 80% while actually stopping breaches.
Think of it as EnduraCoach for your entire tech stack: always connected, always enforcing the plan, and stepping in before you even notice the problem.
Two real-world SMBs that would still be running if they had Barista
Example 1: A Dental Clinic (12 employees, California)
Late April 2026 the practice got hit via the fresh cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940). One unpatched server, no continuous scanning, and “Sorry” ransomware encrypted patient records and scheduling systems in under 40 minutes.
Downtime cost them $18k in lost appointments plus a $45k ransom negotiation.
They paid.
Data was partially recovered.With Espresso Labs this never happens.
Barista’s agents would have auto-detected the cPanel drift during its nightly vuln sweep, patched it automatically, and isolated the server the moment anomalous encryption behavior started.
Immutable backups would have let them restore in minutes with zero ransom paid. The clinic keeps seeing patients instead of calling their MSP in panic.Example 2: A Marketing Agency (8 employees, remote-first)
A senior designer clicked a sophisticated phishing link dressed as a client creative brief.
Stolen credentials gave attackers initial access. Within hours they deployed ransomware across the shared drive and exfiltrated client campaigns. The agency lost three days of billable work and faced a $32k demand.
Classic stolen-credential playbook—exactly the 30% bucket from the Verizon report.Barista would have caught and blocked the malware download, and rolled back from the last clean backup automatically. The designer gets a gentle “hey, that link looked sketchy—let’s run a quick training module.” No encryption, no exfil, no headlines.
These aren’t hypotheticals.
These patterns played out in April for dozens of SMBs just like yours.Your 5-step practitioner playbook (do this this week)
- Stop buying another tool. Audit what you actually have running and where data lives. Most SMBs discover they’re paying for 70% overlap.
- Demand continuous enforcement. Point-in-time scans are dead. You need agents that watch 24/7 and fix drift instantly.
- Test autonomous remediation on one workload. Spin up a low-risk environment (dev server, staging) and let an agent like Barista practice quarantining and restoring.
- Layer in phishing simulation + training that actually sticks. Barista does this natively and measures real behavior change.
- Get your compliance evidence automated. If you’re chasing CMMC Level 2 or SOC 2 Type 2 this year, manual evidence collection is the fastest way to fail an audit.
Your startup isn’t a marathon—it’s brutal sprints.
Security in 2026 is the same.
One missed sprint and the whole race ends. Continuous AI agents turn defense into a sprint you can actually win.The tech exists today. We’re running it for our own early customers and it feels exactly like the relief EnduraCoach gives me mid-training: someone (or something) smarter has your back.
If your April numbers looked anything like the industry’s, drop a comment: what’s your biggest security headache right now?
Or head to espressolabs.com and book a 15-minute Barista demo.
No slide deck, no hard sell—just a live look at what continuous actually feels like.Stay safe out there.
#cybersecurity #SMB #startups
Train hard, ship secure, and let the AI do the heavy lifting. -
Ransomware Risks: Why SMBs Need AI Security Now
Last week I was staring at my EnduraCoach dashboard, watching it yell at me for sneaking in an extra sprint session that my body wasn’t ready for. The AI caught the overtraining pattern across heart-rate, sleep, and power data and shut it down before I wrecked my Ironman build. That same evening the April ransomware numbers landed. SMBs got hammered again. And I thought: if only every founder had an always-on coach like this for their security stack.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth from April 2026: ransomware didn’t slow down—it accelerated. A new player called JanaWare quietly encrypted files for hundreds of Turkish home users and small businesses through targeted phishing campaigns. Low-dollar demands ($200–$400) but high volume. Attackers are learning that SMBs are softer targets and faster payers.
The broader picture is uglier.
Verizon’s 2025 DBIR (still the gold standard) showed 88% of ransomware breaches hit SMBs versus just 39% for enterprises. Unpatched vulnerabilities caused 29% of incidents; stolen credentials another 30%.
Sophos and Black Kite reports confirm SMBs in the $4M–$8M revenue band are now the sweet spot for attackers.Most of us simply don’t have a 24/7 SOC or the headcount to patch, triage, and remediate at machine speed.
Why your current stack is losing the race
You already know the drill—I wrote about it two weeks ago. You’ve got EDR, a SIEM that spits 800 alerts a day, cloud config tools, backup solutions, and a compliance spreadsheet that lives in Google Docs. Your one-person IT “team” (probably you or your CTO wearing three hats) can’t keep up. Alerts become noise. Drift happens. A single phishing email or unpatched server becomes a full-blown encryption party.
Meanwhile, attackers have upgraded. Remember my Claude Mythos experiment in April? One air-gapped model autonomously built an exploit chain and phoned home. Offensive AI agents are now table stakes for ransomware groups. Defensive point tools can’t match that speed.
The fix we’re actually shipping at Espresso Labs
This is exactly why we built Espresso Labs: one unified AI-powered platform that replaces the dozen disconnected tools and the missing SOC. At the center is Barista—our continuous AI agent that doesn’t just alert. It acts.
Barista watches endpoints, cloud configs, identities, and backups 24/7. It triages, quarantines, remediates, and collects audit-ready evidence in real time. Human experts back it up when needed. For CMMC, SOC 2, or HIPAA it enforces controls continuously instead of chasing checkboxes. Founders tell us it cuts compliance cost and timeline by up to 80% while actually stopping breaches.
Think of it as EnduraCoach for your entire tech stack: always connected, always enforcing the plan, and stepping in before you even notice the problem.
Two real-world SMBs that would still be running if they had Barista
Example 1: A Dental Clinic (12 employees, California)
Late April 2026 the practice got hit via the fresh cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940). One unpatched server, no continuous scanning, and “Sorry” ransomware encrypted patient records and scheduling systems in under 40 minutes.
Downtime cost them $18k in lost appointments plus a $45k ransom negotiation.
They paid.
Data was partially recovered.With Espresso Labs this never happens.
Barista’s agents would have auto-detected the cPanel drift during its nightly vuln sweep, patched it automatically, and isolated the server the moment anomalous encryption behavior started.
Immutable backups would have let them restore in minutes with zero ransom paid. The clinic keeps seeing patients instead of calling their MSP in panic.Example 2: A Marketing Agency (8 employees, remote-first)
A senior designer clicked a sophisticated phishing link dressed as a client creative brief.
Stolen credentials gave attackers initial access. Within hours they deployed ransomware across the shared drive and exfiltrated client campaigns. The agency lost three days of billable work and faced a $32k demand.
Classic stolen-credential playbook—exactly the 30% bucket from the Verizon report.Barista would have caught and blocked the malware download, and rolled back from the last clean backup automatically. The designer gets a gentle “hey, that link looked sketchy—let’s run a quick training module.” No encryption, no exfil, no headlines.
These aren’t hypotheticals.
These patterns played out in April for dozens of SMBs just like yours.Your 5-step practitioner playbook (do this this week)
- Stop buying another tool. Audit what you actually have running and where data lives. Most SMBs discover they’re paying for 70% overlap.
- Demand continuous enforcement. Point-in-time scans are dead. You need agents that watch 24/7 and fix drift instantly.
- Test autonomous remediation on one workload. Spin up a low-risk environment (dev server, staging) and let an agent like Barista practice quarantining and restoring.
- Layer in phishing simulation + training that actually sticks. Barista does this natively and measures real behavior change.
- Get your compliance evidence automated. If you’re chasing CMMC Level 2 or SOC 2 Type 2 this year, manual evidence collection is the fastest way to fail an audit.
Your startup isn’t a marathon—it’s brutal sprints.
Security in 2026 is the same.
One missed sprint and the whole race ends. Continuous AI agents turn defense into a sprint you can actually win.The tech exists today. We’re running it for our own early customers and it feels exactly like the relief EnduraCoach gives me mid-training: someone (or something) smarter has your back.
If your April numbers looked anything like the industry’s, drop a comment: what’s your biggest security headache right now?
Or head to espressolabs.com and book a 15-minute Barista demo.
No slide deck, no hard sell—just a live look at what continuous actually feels like.Stay safe out there.
Train hard, ship secure, and let the AI do the heavy lifting.Rate this:
#cybersecurity #SMB #startups -
Ransomware Risks: Why SMBs Need AI Security Now
Last week I was staring at my EnduraCoach dashboard, watching it yell at me for sneaking in an extra sprint session that my body wasn’t ready for. The AI caught the overtraining pattern across heart-rate, sleep, and power data and shut it down before I wrecked my Ironman build. That same evening the April ransomware numbers landed. SMBs got hammered again. And I thought: if only every founder had an always-on coach like this for their security stack.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth from April 2026: ransomware didn’t slow down—it accelerated. A new player called JanaWare quietly encrypted files for hundreds of Turkish home users and small businesses through targeted phishing campaigns. Low-dollar demands ($200–$400) but high volume. Attackers are learning that SMBs are softer targets and faster payers.
The broader picture is uglier.
Verizon’s 2025 DBIR (still the gold standard) showed 88% of ransomware breaches hit SMBs versus just 39% for enterprises. Unpatched vulnerabilities caused 29% of incidents; stolen credentials another 30%.
Sophos and Black Kite reports confirm SMBs in the $4M–$8M revenue band are now the sweet spot for attackers.Most of us simply don’t have a 24/7 SOC or the headcount to patch, triage, and remediate at machine speed.
Why your current stack is losing the race
You already know the drill—I wrote about it two weeks ago. You’ve got EDR, a SIEM that spits 800 alerts a day, cloud config tools, backup solutions, and a compliance spreadsheet that lives in Google Docs. Your one-person IT “team” (probably you or your CTO wearing three hats) can’t keep up. Alerts become noise. Drift happens. A single phishing email or unpatched server becomes a full-blown encryption party.
Meanwhile, attackers have upgraded. Remember my Claude Mythos experiment in April? One air-gapped model autonomously built an exploit chain and phoned home. Offensive AI agents are now table stakes for ransomware groups. Defensive point tools can’t match that speed.
The fix we’re actually shipping at Espresso Labs
This is exactly why we built Espresso Labs: one unified AI-powered platform that replaces the dozen disconnected tools and the missing SOC. At the center is Barista—our continuous AI agent that doesn’t just alert. It acts.
Barista watches endpoints, cloud configs, identities, and backups 24/7. It triages, quarantines, remediates, and collects audit-ready evidence in real time. Human experts back it up when needed. For CMMC, SOC 2, or HIPAA it enforces controls continuously instead of chasing checkboxes. Founders tell us it cuts compliance cost and timeline by up to 80% while actually stopping breaches.
Think of it as EnduraCoach for your entire tech stack: always connected, always enforcing the plan, and stepping in before you even notice the problem.
Two real-world SMBs that would still be running if they had Barista
Example 1: A Dental Clinic (12 employees, California)
Late April 2026 the practice got hit via the fresh cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940). One unpatched server, no continuous scanning, and “Sorry” ransomware encrypted patient records and scheduling systems in under 40 minutes.
Downtime cost them $18k in lost appointments plus a $45k ransom negotiation.
They paid.
Data was partially recovered.With Espresso Labs this never happens.
Barista’s agents would have auto-detected the cPanel drift during its nightly vuln sweep, patched it automatically, and isolated the server the moment anomalous encryption behavior started.
Immutable backups would have let them restore in minutes with zero ransom paid. The clinic keeps seeing patients instead of calling their MSP in panic.Example 2: A Marketing Agency (8 employees, remote-first)
A senior designer clicked a sophisticated phishing link dressed as a client creative brief.
Stolen credentials gave attackers initial access. Within hours they deployed ransomware across the shared drive and exfiltrated client campaigns. The agency lost three days of billable work and faced a $32k demand.
Classic stolen-credential playbook—exactly the 30% bucket from the Verizon report.Barista would have caught and blocked the malware download, and rolled back from the last clean backup automatically. The designer gets a gentle “hey, that link looked sketchy—let’s run a quick training module.” No encryption, no exfil, no headlines.
These aren’t hypotheticals.
These patterns played out in April for dozens of SMBs just like yours.Your 5-step practitioner playbook (do this this week)
- Stop buying another tool. Audit what you actually have running and where data lives. Most SMBs discover they’re paying for 70% overlap.
- Demand continuous enforcement. Point-in-time scans are dead. You need agents that watch 24/7 and fix drift instantly.
- Test autonomous remediation on one workload. Spin up a low-risk environment (dev server, staging) and let an agent like Barista practice quarantining and restoring.
- Layer in phishing simulation + training that actually sticks. Barista does this natively and measures real behavior change.
- Get your compliance evidence automated. If you’re chasing CMMC Level 2 or SOC 2 Type 2 this year, manual evidence collection is the fastest way to fail an audit.
Your startup isn’t a marathon—it’s brutal sprints.
Security in 2026 is the same.
One missed sprint and the whole race ends. Continuous AI agents turn defense into a sprint you can actually win.The tech exists today. We’re running it for our own early customers and it feels exactly like the relief EnduraCoach gives me mid-training: someone (or something) smarter has your back.
If your April numbers looked anything like the industry’s, drop a comment: what’s your biggest security headache right now?
Or head to espressolabs.com and book a 15-minute Barista demo.
No slide deck, no hard sell—just a live look at what continuous actually feels like.Stay safe out there.
Train hard, ship secure, and let the AI do the heavy lifting.Rate this:
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Ransomware Risks: Why SMBs Need AI Security Now
Last week I was staring at my EnduraCoach dashboard, watching it yell at me for sneaking in an extra sprint session that my body wasn’t ready for. The AI caught the overtraining pattern across heart-rate, sleep, and power data and shut it down before I wrecked my Ironman build. That same evening the April ransomware numbers landed. SMBs got hammered again. And I thought: if only every founder had an always-on coach like this for their security stack.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth from April 2026: ransomware didn’t slow down—it accelerated. A new player called JanaWare quietly encrypted files for hundreds of Turkish home users and small businesses through targeted phishing campaigns. Low-dollar demands ($200–$400) but high volume. Attackers are learning that SMBs are softer targets and faster payers.
The broader picture is uglier.
Verizon’s 2025 DBIR (still the gold standard) showed 88% of ransomware breaches hit SMBs versus just 39% for enterprises. Unpatched vulnerabilities caused 29% of incidents; stolen credentials another 30%.
Sophos and Black Kite reports confirm SMBs in the $4M–$8M revenue band are now the sweet spot for attackers.Most of us simply don’t have a 24/7 SOC or the headcount to patch, triage, and remediate at machine speed.
Why your current stack is losing the race
You already know the drill—I wrote about it two weeks ago. You’ve got EDR, a SIEM that spits 800 alerts a day, cloud config tools, backup solutions, and a compliance spreadsheet that lives in Google Docs. Your one-person IT “team” (probably you or your CTO wearing three hats) can’t keep up. Alerts become noise. Drift happens. A single phishing email or unpatched server becomes a full-blown encryption party.
Meanwhile, attackers have upgraded. Remember my Claude Mythos experiment in April? One air-gapped model autonomously built an exploit chain and phoned home. Offensive AI agents are now table stakes for ransomware groups. Defensive point tools can’t match that speed.
The fix we’re actually shipping at Espresso Labs
This is exactly why we built Espresso Labs: one unified AI-powered platform that replaces the dozen disconnected tools and the missing SOC. At the center is Barista—our continuous AI agent that doesn’t just alert. It acts.
Barista watches endpoints, cloud configs, identities, and backups 24/7. It triages, quarantines, remediates, and collects audit-ready evidence in real time. Human experts back it up when needed. For CMMC, SOC 2, or HIPAA it enforces controls continuously instead of chasing checkboxes. Founders tell us it cuts compliance cost and timeline by up to 80% while actually stopping breaches.
Think of it as EnduraCoach for your entire tech stack: always connected, always enforcing the plan, and stepping in before you even notice the problem.
Two real-world SMBs that would still be running if they had Barista
Example 1: A Dental Clinic (12 employees, California)
Late April 2026 the practice got hit via the fresh cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940). One unpatched server, no continuous scanning, and “Sorry” ransomware encrypted patient records and scheduling systems in under 40 minutes.
Downtime cost them $18k in lost appointments plus a $45k ransom negotiation.
They paid.
Data was partially recovered.With Espresso Labs this never happens.
Barista’s agents would have auto-detected the cPanel drift during its nightly vuln sweep, patched it automatically, and isolated the server the moment anomalous encryption behavior started.
Immutable backups would have let them restore in minutes with zero ransom paid. The clinic keeps seeing patients instead of calling their MSP in panic.Example 2: A Marketing Agency (8 employees, remote-first)
A senior designer clicked a sophisticated phishing link dressed as a client creative brief.
Stolen credentials gave attackers initial access. Within hours they deployed ransomware across the shared drive and exfiltrated client campaigns. The agency lost three days of billable work and faced a $32k demand.
Classic stolen-credential playbook—exactly the 30% bucket from the Verizon report.Barista would have caught and blocked the malware download, and rolled back from the last clean backup automatically. The designer gets a gentle “hey, that link looked sketchy—let’s run a quick training module.” No encryption, no exfil, no headlines.
These aren’t hypotheticals.
These patterns played out in April for dozens of SMBs just like yours.Your 5-step practitioner playbook (do this this week)
- Stop buying another tool. Audit what you actually have running and where data lives. Most SMBs discover they’re paying for 70% overlap.
- Demand continuous enforcement. Point-in-time scans are dead. You need agents that watch 24/7 and fix drift instantly.
- Test autonomous remediation on one workload. Spin up a low-risk environment (dev server, staging) and let an agent like Barista practice quarantining and restoring.
- Layer in phishing simulation + training that actually sticks. Barista does this natively and measures real behavior change.
- Get your compliance evidence automated. If you’re chasing CMMC Level 2 or SOC 2 Type 2 this year, manual evidence collection is the fastest way to fail an audit.
Your startup isn’t a marathon—it’s brutal sprints.
Security in 2026 is the same.
One missed sprint and the whole race ends. Continuous AI agents turn defense into a sprint you can actually win.The tech exists today. We’re running it for our own early customers and it feels exactly like the relief EnduraCoach gives me mid-training: someone (or something) smarter has your back.
If your April numbers looked anything like the industry’s, drop a comment: what’s your biggest security headache right now?
Or head to espressolabs.com and book a 15-minute Barista demo.
No slide deck, no hard sell—just a live look at what continuous actually feels like.Stay safe out there.
Train hard, ship secure, and let the AI do the heavy lifting.Rate this:
#cybersecurity #SMB #startups -
https://www.europesays.com/afrique/103240/ La SMB versera 6,236 milliards FCFA de dividendes au titre de 2025 – Africtelegraph #bitume #BRVM #CôteD'Ivoire #CoteDIvoire #dividendes #industrie #InfrastructuresRoutieres #smb #UEMOA
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Super Mario Brothers #Pepsi Bottle Cap Collection: Super Luigi Warp Pipe/Dokan #20 (Japanese Import) *Open/Complete* brought to you by the #PlastiqueBoutique https://plastiqueboutique.com/product/super-mario-brothers-pepsi-bottle-cap-collection-super-luigi-warp-pipe-dokan-20-japanese-import-open-complete/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost #Pepsi #SuperMario #SuperMarioFigures #PepsiCollectors #SuperMarioCollectors #SuperMarioToy #SuperMarioDisplay #SuperMarioToys #SuperMarioCollector #SuperMarioCollections #PepsiCollections #PepsiStarWars #SuperMarioCollection #PepsiCollection #SuperMarioFigure #StarWarsPepsi #SMB #PepsiCollector
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Evolution Technologies featured in Cyber Defense Magazine for addressing SMB cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Enterprise-grade protection now accessible to small businesses. #Cybersecurity #SMB
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Evolution Technologies featured in Cyber Defense Magazine for addressing SMB cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Enterprise-grade protection now accessible to small businesses. #Cybersecurity #SMB
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Evolution Technologies featured in Cyber Defense Magazine for addressing SMB cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Enterprise-grade protection now accessible to small businesses. #Cybersecurity #SMB
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Pax8 CEO on vendors refocusing on SMBs and geopolitics https://www.byteseu.com/2017869/ #AI #China #Geopolitics #Pax8 #ScottChasin #smb
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Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, targeting 36M U.S. small firms. The 10-city tour reaches 1,000 owners. Real integration points: QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign. The connectors reveal where adoption likely depends—existing software ecosystems, not just Claude itself.
#AI #SMB #BusinessAutomation https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-pitches-1-000-main-street-owners-the-real-customer-is-quickbooks-2/
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Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, targeting 36M U.S. small firms. The 10-city tour reaches 1,000 owners. Real integration points: QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign. The connectors reveal where adoption likely depends—existing software ecosystems, not just Claude itself.
#AI #SMB #BusinessAutomation https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-pitches-1-000-main-street-owners-the-real-customer-is-quickbooks-2/
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Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, targeting 36M U.S. small firms. The 10-city tour reaches 1,000 owners. Real integration points: QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign. The connectors reveal where adoption likely depends—existing software ecosystems, not just Claude itself.
#AI #SMB #BusinessAutomation https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-pitches-1-000-main-street-owners-the-real-customer-is-quickbooks-2/
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Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, targeting 36M U.S. small firms. The 10-city tour reaches 1,000 owners. Real integration points: QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign. The connectors reveal where adoption likely depends—existing software ecosystems, not just Claude itself.
#AI #SMB #BusinessAutomation https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-pitches-1-000-main-street-owners-the-real-customer-is-quickbooks-2/
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Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, targeting 36M U.S. small firms. The 10-city tour reaches 1,000 owners. Real integration points: QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign. The connectors reveal where adoption likely depends—existing software ecosystems, not just Claude itself.
#AI #SMB #BusinessAutomation https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-pitches-1-000-main-street-owners-the-real-customer-is-quickbooks-2/
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ICYMI: The ad market is two markets, and most forecasts only see one: Ian Whittaker argues the ad market splits into a visible, agency-led layer and a hidden, fast-growing SMB layer that most industry forecasts consistently miss. https://ppc.land/the-ad-market-is-two-markets-and-most-forecasts-only-see-one/ #Advertising #Marketing #DigitalMarketing #SMB #MarketTrends
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ICYMI: The ad market is two markets, and most forecasts only see one: Ian Whittaker argues the ad market splits into a visible, agency-led layer and a hidden, fast-growing SMB layer that most industry forecasts consistently miss. https://ppc.land/the-ad-market-is-two-markets-and-most-forecasts-only-see-one/ #Advertising #Marketing #DigitalMarketing #SMB #MarketTrends
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ICYMI: The ad market is two markets, and most forecasts only see one: Ian Whittaker argues the ad market splits into a visible, agency-led layer and a hidden, fast-growing SMB layer that most industry forecasts consistently miss. https://ppc.land/the-ad-market-is-two-markets-and-most-forecasts-only-see-one/ #Advertising #Marketing #DigitalMarketing #SMB #MarketTrends
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ICYMI: The ad market is two markets, and most forecasts only see one: Ian Whittaker argues the ad market splits into a visible, agency-led layer and a hidden, fast-growing SMB layer that most industry forecasts consistently miss. https://ppc.land/the-ad-market-is-two-markets-and-most-forecasts-only-see-one/ #Advertising #Marketing #DigitalMarketing #SMB #MarketTrends
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Sensor Tower Consolidates Market Intelligence with AppMagic Acquisition
Sensor Tower buys AppMagic. This helps small app companies get market data. It means more tools for indie developers.
#AppIntelligence, #SensorTower, #AppMagic, #MobileApps, #SMB
https://newsletter.tf/sensor-tower-buys-appmagic-for-smb-app-data/
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Sensor Tower has bought AppMagic. This is to offer better market data to small app businesses.
#AppIntelligence, #SensorTower, #AppMagic, #MobileApps, #SMB
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Windows SMB Flaw Enables File Lockdowns Without Traditional Ransomware Traces
New Windows 'GhostLock' flaw lets attackers lock files on SMB shares. It bypasses security and leaves no traditional ransomware traces. Learn how to respond.
#WindowsSecurity, #CyberAttack, #Ransomware, #SMB, #GhostLock
https://newsletter.tf/windows-ghostlock-flaw-locks-files-no-ransomware/
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Attackers can now lock files on Windows SMB shares using a new 'GhostLock' method. This exploit is harder to detect than normal ransomware because it doesn't leave typical signs like file changes.
#WindowsSecurity, #CyberAttack, #Ransomware, #SMB, #GhostLock
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Les petites structures sont souvent les plus exposées — pas par négligence, mais parce que les ressources manquent et que les risques restent invisibles jusqu'au jour où ils ne le sont plus.
Trois angles faciles à oublier, utiles à rappeler. Parce que la sécurité, ça commence souvent par les détails qu'on reporte à demain. ☕
#infosec #cybersecurity #SMB
https://malware.news/t/3-easy-to-miss-cybersecurity-risks-for-small-businesses/106629 -
Wondered why my images folder is so huge. Turns out there's a hidden .recycle folder used by Samba/CIFS to act as network level trash bin. You know… in case someone deletes something from a network share by accident.
So all the time I was freeing up space on purpose I ended up with an additional copy on the remote fs 😩
* I use the F-Droid app SMBSync2 to backup my images from the smartphone automatically to my local network share.
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Wondered why my images folder is so huge. Turns out there's a hidden .recycle folder used by Samba/CIFS to act as network level trash bin. You know… in case someone deletes something from a network share by accident.
So all the time I was freeing up space on purpose I ended up with an additional copy on the remote fs 😩
* I use the F-Droid app SMBSync2 to backup my images from the smartphone automatically to my local network share.