On May 1 2022, an unnamed company in the automotive sector fell victim to what is surely one of the most nightmarishly contorted ransomware incidents ever reported. Hopefully, that sentence has grabbed your attention because untangling what happened on that day as reported by security company Sophos is a wild ride involving not one, not […]

The problem with using averages to project the damage caused by ransomware is that they tend to make us forget about the sizable number that fall outside this band. Downtime—how long it takes to recover from an attack—is an interesting case in point. Data company Statista estimates the average downtime after a ransomware attack against […]

How many organizations across the world were successfully breached by ransomware in the last 12 months? Normally, blogs such as this rely on guesstimates to answer such questions, but now the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has helpfully crunched the evidence and come up with a very specific answer for the period between May […]

Something unexpected is happening to ransomware statistics: for the first time since anyone can remember, the volume of attacks seems to be dropping quarter-over-quarter.  The evidence for this phenomenon includes a report from security company SonicWall, which recorded 236.1 million global ransomware attempts in the first half of 2022, a 23% drop compared to the […]

The U.S. Justice Department has notched up  a small but potentially significant victory against ransomware after announcing the recovery of a $500,000 cryptocurrency payment extorted from two healthcare providers. While the sum sounds modest, and recovering ransoms has become more common in the last year, it’s clear from the announcement that the incident holds larger […]