It was a landmark year for ransomware in 2023 and a well-publicized one following the MOVEit and MGM Resorts beaches that shook the security industry. Not only did threat actors collectively pocket a ...

Ransomware attacks have become increasingly prevalent, targeting many institutions and causing significant financial losses. A recent report sheds light on the scale of this issue, revealing that ...

It's been a quiet week, with even threat actors appearing to take some time off for the holidays. We did not see much research released on ransomware this week, with most of the news focusing on new ...

Unit 42 is the threat intelligence and response arm of Palo Alto Networks and has recently released its Ransomware Retrospective 2024: Unit 42 Leak Site Analysis. In the report, Unit 42 found a "49% ...

New research from Malwarebytes ThreatDown analysts shows that 2023 was the "worst year on record" for education, with a 105% jump in known ransomware attacks targeting the global education sector and ...

Initial ransomware demands reached a median of $600,000 in 2023, a 20% rise on the previous year, according to a new report by Arctic Wolf. Several industries – energy & natural resources, retail and ...

A new report released today by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis Inc. finds that ransomware payments hit $1.1 billion in 2023, the highest amount of record and close to double the $567 million in ...

BOSTON -- Corvus Insurance today released its Q4 2023 Ransomware Report. Featuring data collected from ransomware leak sites, the report shows that while Q4 attacks were down slightly from Q3 2023, ...

Ransomware groups new and old reported nearly 4,000 victims on their leak sites in 2023, up from about 2,700 in 2022. The number of victims that ransomware groups posted on their data leak sites ...

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 found a 49 percent bump in victims reported by ransomware leak sites in 2023. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 found a 49 percent bump in victims reported by ransomware leak ...

The scourge of ransomware in the U.S. is “as bad as it has ever been,” with 2,207 governments, hospitals, and schools victimized by hackers in 2023, according to a new survey by the cybersecurity ...

America’s next major battlefield may not be overseas—it may already be running through the networks that power our homes, ...