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A ransomware group encrypted a U.S. payment gateway and collapsed card processing for merchants, municipalities, and service providers across multiple states for six days and counting. An expired SaaS add-in domain was reclaimed and used to harvest 4,000 credentials through an unchanged trust listing in a major enterprise marketplace. Six zero-days were exploited before disclosure, several bypassing the security features designed to interpose user consent. Malware families now measure sandbox behavior geometrically before deciding whether to execute.
Authorization continuity, payment runtime, control-layer interposition, detection environments. Four layers. Each assumed to sit outside the surface it governs.
Separation was not breached. It was presumed.
AUDIENCE_SCOPE: CISO_ONLY
VERDICT_MODE: INSTITUTIONAL_FRAME
PRESSURE_CLASS: SINGULAR
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