BlackFog has today released the State of Ransomware report for August 2024.Additionally, Darren Williams, CEO and Founder, BlackFog, has provided his thoughts on the state of ransomware in August, below:
“August witnessed the 3rd highest number of attacks for the year with 63 publicly disclosed attacks, already surpassing the total number of attacks in 2020, 2021 and 2022. It also represents the second highest number of undisclosed attacks of the year with 464, with a ratio of 737% undisclosed to disclosed attacks.
From a sector perspective Healthcare had the biggest increase this month with 20%, or 16 verified attacks. This makes Healthcare the most targeted sector by a significant margin, followed by Government and Education, which saw only modest increases of 10% and 12% respectively.
In terms of variants, this month we saw RansomHub, a new entrant rocket to 7.9% of all attacks, followed by Medusa and Rhysida at 7.6% and 6.0% respectively. While LockBit still maintains its lead with 18.4% of all attacks, we only saw one confirmed attack this month.
A similar trend was observed in unreported attacks with RansomHub commanding 8.4% of attacks.
Lastly, we saw data exfiltration rates to China increase significantly to 20% this month (an increase of 4%) and Russia stable at 6%, with 93% of all attacks involving data exfiltration.”
BlackFog State of Ransomware Report August 2024: https://privacy.blackfog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BlackFogRansomwareReport-Aug-2024.pdf
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The August BlackFog State of Ransomware Report Is Out
BlackFog has today released the State of Ransomware report for August 2024.Additionally, Darren Williams, CEO and Founder, BlackFog, has provided his thoughts on the state of ransomware in August, below:
“August witnessed the 3rd highest number of attacks for the year with 63 publicly disclosed attacks, already surpassing the total number of attacks in 2020, 2021 and 2022. It also represents the second highest number of undisclosed attacks of the year with 464, with a ratio of 737% undisclosed to disclosed attacks.
From a sector perspective Healthcare had the biggest increase this month with 20%, or 16 verified attacks. This makes Healthcare the most targeted sector by a significant margin, followed by Government and Education, which saw only modest increases of 10% and 12% respectively.
In terms of variants, this month we saw RansomHub, a new entrant rocket to 7.9% of all attacks, followed by Medusa and Rhysida at 7.6% and 6.0% respectively. While LockBit still maintains its lead with 18.4% of all attacks, we only saw one confirmed attack this month.
A similar trend was observed in unreported attacks with RansomHub commanding 8.4% of attacks.
Lastly, we saw data exfiltration rates to China increase significantly to 20% this month (an increase of 4%) and Russia stable at 6%, with 93% of all attacks involving data exfiltration.”
BlackFog State of Ransomware Report August 2024: https://privacy.blackfog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BlackFogRansomwareReport-Aug-2024.pdf
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