Ransomware Strains Doubled in the Last Six Months

A recent report from FortiGuard Labs saw ransomware strains double from 5,400 to 10,666 in total compared to 2021, and the year is not over yet.

In a statement from FortiGuard Lab’s Chief Strategist, “Cyber adversaries are advancing their playbooks to thwart defense and scale their criminal affiliate networks. They are using aggressive execution strategies such as extortion or wiping data as well as focusing on reconnaissance tactics pre-attack to ensure a better return on threat investment.”

With the recent insights that one-third of organizations get weekly ransomware attacks and the Cisco hack that started with an Initial Access Broker, ransomware is not going away. Bad actors will continue to utilize ransomware as their most robust method of infiltrating your organization’s database.

But how can you defend against these types of attacks in the future? In short, new-school security awareness training is the answer. Your organization needs to gain a deeper understanding of the goals and tactics used by threat actors and stay up-to-date on the latest attacks. And as the number of threats continues to increase, your human firewall can grow too. 

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