India has seen the highest number of ransomware attack attempts per organization, with an average of 213 weekly attacks since the beginning of the year, a recent report said.<\/p>\n
According to Check Point Research, India is followed by Argentina, Chile, France and Taiwan with 104, 103, 61 and 50 per organisation, respectively.<\/p>\n
The report said that the global surge in ransomware attacks has hit a 102 per cent increase this year compared to the beginning of 2020 and shows no sign of slowing down.<\/p>\n
While in North America, healthcare organisations have suffered the most attacks since the beginning of the year, in Europe, utilities absorb the most attacks.<\/p>\n
In APAC, insurance\/legal are most impacted, while in LATAM, it is the communications industry. In Africa, the financial and banking sector is the most attacked.<\/p>\n
According to the report, prominent attacks that have taken place at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 point at a new attack chain \u2013 essentially an expansion to the double extortion ransomware technique, integrating an additional, unique threat to the process \u2013 called as Triple Extortion.<\/p>\n
The first notable case is the Vastaamo clinic attack, which happened in October 2020. Innovative at the time, the 40,000-patient Finnish psychotherapy clinic suffered a yearlong breach that culminated in extensive patient data theft and a ransomware attack.<\/p>\n
A decent ransom was demanded from the healthcare provider, but surprisingly, smaller sums were also demanded from the patients, who had received the ransom demands individually by email.<\/p>\n
In those emails, the attackers threatened to publish their therapist session notes. This was the first attack of its kind within the ransomware attacks landscape, the report said.<\/p>\n
The report notes that some ransomware operators use well-researched and highly targeted spear-phishing emails as their attack vector.<\/p>\n
Protecting against this ransomware that “slips through the cracks” requires a specialised security solution.<\/p>\n
To achieve its objective, ransomware must perform certain anomalous actions, such as opening and encrypting large numbers of files.<\/p>\n
Anti-ransomware solutions monitor programmes running on a computer for suspicious behaviours commonly exhibited by ransomware, and if these behaviours are detected, the programme can take action to stop encryption before further damage can be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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