A China-linked hacking crew tracked as Storm-1175 has walked away from Medusa, the ransomware-as-a-service strain it rode for years, and started deploying a new, privately built encryptor called StormEncryptor. The switch surfaced on August 2, 2026, the same day a critical authentication-bypass flaw in N-able’s N-central remote monitoring and management console, tracked as CVE-2026-18577, went…
