When cyberattacks turn physical: Why ransomware now includes threats…

Ransomware attackers are now pairing digital extortion with explicit threats of physical violence against employees, executives and their families, exploiting declining payment rates by escalating to hybrid cyber-physical intimidation tactics. Healthcare and education sectors are primary targets because operational disruption creates immediate real-world urgency. Your incident response plan now needs to cover physical threats to staff, not just system recovery. If you sell security software or services to healthcare, you've moved from a technical problem to a people problem—and your customers' liability just changed.