New AI tools can turn everyday conversations into searchable knowledge and follow-up tasks. For small businesses, the opportunity is real and so is the responsibility to protect the information behind it.
Federal agencies just confirmed that one of 2026's most active ransomware gangs doesn't just encrypt your data it hunts down and deletes your backups first, which means "we have backups" is no longer a safety net unless those backups are built to survive the attack itself.
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Employees did everything security training told them to do typed the password, approved the MFA prompt, and attackers walked into their inbox anyway, because this attack never needed to beat MFA at all; it just stole the session that came after it.
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In a single week, Microsoft shipped a record-shattering 1,400+ patches, attackers breached a VPN appliance that was already fully up to date, and CISA added nine actively exploited flaws to its must-patch list a stark reminder that for small and mid-sized businesses, "we installed the updates" is no longer the same thing as "we're secure."
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We've spent years telling clients that backups are the safety net. If everything else goes wrong, you can get your data back. So, it stings a bit to write a post about a backup platform possibly being the way an attacker got into Microsoft 365.
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