Ransomware attacks surge despite payments being down

The latest threat intelligence report from Ontinue finds a 132 percent surge in ransomware attacks, although ransom payments have declined by 35 percent, suggesting a shift in attacker strategies to double down on ransomware efforts. Among other key trends, the report highlights the rapid rise of Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) attacks, which have become a dominant method for stealing authentication tokens and bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA). The PlugX Remote Access Trojan (RAT) remains an active threat too, while command-and-control (C2) traffic associated with infostealers and malware loaders continues to escalate. The report also notes the increasing sophistication of vishing (voice phishing) attacks,… [Continue Reading]