Lockbit stories

Lockbit3 leads ransomware surge in the year's first half, while unconventional targets surface amid new attack patterns.

Akamai Technologies, the cloud security company, has released a new State of the Internet report that spotlights the evolving ransomware landscape. 

April saw the second highest volume of attacks ever recorded by NCC Group’s Global Threat Intelligence team. With the top three most active threat actors all increasing activity in April.

"It is an indication of how the threat landscape is evolving and threat actors show no signs of reducing ransomware activities."

The reported ransomware incidents increased by 17% in the UK last year, with LockBit dominating the ransomware attack landscape, in the UK and worldwide.

Analysis from NCC Group’s Global Threat Intelligence team credits the increase to returning threat actor groups resurfacing and taking the lead in November.

There is an increased risk of ransomware attacks in 2023 threatening to leak people's and businesses’ valuable data if ransom demands aren’t paid. 

A new report from risk intelligence firm Flashpoint has found that Australia was the sixth most targeted country in the world for ransomware attacks.

KuppingerCole analysts have predicted that the SAP Access Tool Management market will reach USD $636 million by 2025.

Sophos has announced the general availability of Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) with new threat detection and response capabilities.

KuppingerCole analysts have predicted that the data catalogs and metadata market will reach USD $2.44 billion by 2025.

The report addresses how ransomware remains one of the greatest cyber crime threats to organisations with operators innovating their extortion tactics.

KuppingerCole Analysts predict the web application firewall market to reach US$3.92 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 8.7%.

The telecom industry ranks globally as the most impacted by ransomware, followed by transportation and shipping.

Analysts from KuppingerCole have predicted that the Endpoint Protection, Detection and Response (EPDR) market is set to reach USD$33.8 billion by 2025.

“An interesting trend we observed this quarter was cyber gangs actively crowdsourcing and paying people to support their criminal activities."

Analysts from KuppingerCole have predicted that the Identity Fabrics market is set to reach USD$8.2 billion by 2025.

Ransomware continues to be one of the most threatening financial and operational risks to industrial organisations worldwide

KuppingerCole predicts that the CAGR to go up to 31,1%, leading the passwordless authentication market to reach US$6.6 billion by 2025.

Ping Identity has been named a leader in three 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass reports, including Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM).

OpenText threat intelligence experts combed through the data, analysed different behaviours, and determined which malicious payloads are the nastiest.

The company's Absolute Secure Access was recognised for its ability to protect users and resources while improving the remote worker experience.

Securonix Threat Labs has been keeping an eye on each and every threat impacting customers and is aware of widespread campaigns.

Sophos has announced in a new whitepaper that Hive, LockBit and BlackCat, three prominent ransomware gangs, consecutively attacked the same network.