Ransomware payments hit record highs as threats get harder to detect

The frequency of ransomware attacks has dropped from eight incidents per organization to five or six incidents in the last year, but at the same time the average ransomware payment has surged by more than a million dollars, from $2.5M to $3.6M. A new Global Threat Landscape report from ExtraHop, based on research by Censuswide, finds threat actors are shifting away from broad, indiscriminate attacks to a more targeted approach that yields better results. As IT environments grow increasingly complex and attack surfaces expand, threat actors are able to capitalize on blind spots, spending more time inside an organization to… [Continue Reading]