Fewer survey respondents reported ransomware attacks in 2019 than in 2018, according to a recent Dark Reading survey. Yet, the number reporting that they paid an attackers' ransom nearly quadrupled -- rising to 15% of those that had suffered a ransomware attack.
Ten percent of respondents stated that their organization had suffered a ransomware attack (down from 12% in the 2018 study). Of those, fifteen percent said that they paid the ransom, up from just 4% last year.
Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly severe and sophisticated. As Jai Vijayan wrote for Dark Reading last month:
Some recent developments include growing collaboration between threat groups on ransomware campaigns; the use of more sophisticated evasion mechanisms; elaborate multi-phase attacks involving reconnaissance and network scoping; and human-guided automated attack techniques. ...
In many attacks, threat actors have first infected a target network with malware like Emotet and Trickbot to try and gather as much information about systems on the network as possible. The goal is to find the high-value systems and encrypt data on it so victims are more likely to pay.
If we look at the big picture, we ..
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