JADEPUFFER's autonomous ransomware kill chain is not a technology milestone; it is a business model event, and the business model it disrupts is the one defenders have been building their response assumptions around for a decade.
Autonomous ransomware collapses the attacker labor cost floor, forcing insurance carriers to rewrite exclusion language while validating billion-dollar agentic security bets made six months ago.
Three simultaneous EDR exploits expose a $16B cyber insurance underwriting assumption, while npm's collapse as trusted infrastructure validates the developer security VC thesis absorbing the most capital in Q1 2026.