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Medusa Ransomware Hits 500 Critical Infrastructure Orgs by Buying Access

Published

21 August 2026

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technology

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Security: Cybersecurity

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United States

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Fusion42 · 22 August 2026 · Fusion42 review

Medusa ransomware has increased its critical infrastructure victims in the United States from about 300 to over 500 in a year by purchasing network access through brokers. Federal agencies FBI, CISA, and HHS advise mitigation strategies including phishing-resistant MFA, patching public systems, and network segmentation to reduce exploitability.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Security: Cybersecurity.

◆ The Wire takeaway

You face an expanding pool of cheap network footholds your competitors may already have bought. Strengthen multifactor authentication and patching now to lock brokers out before they sell access into your systems.

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1 source · 21 Aug 2026

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