“The manufacturing, healthcare, and know-how sectors have been the highest targets of ransomware assaults, whereas the power sector skilled a 500% year-over-year spike as essential infrastructure and susceptibility to operational disruptions make it significantly engaging to cybercriminals,” the report mentioned. “The power sector skilled a 527.27% year-over-year enhance in ransomware assaults, doubtless resulting from its essential nature and the excessive ransom potential it provides to attackers.”
The report listed essentially the most prolific ransomware teams at the moment, with the biggest being LockBit (988 recognized assaults), BlackCat (410), 8Base (352), Play (345), Clop (291), BianLian (268), Akira (224), Black Basta (202), Medusa (169), and NoEscape (126).
It additionally famous what it described because the “latest ransomware teams on the scene”: Cloak, RansomHub, and Slug, which all surfaced this 12 months.
