FBI: Ransomware Actors Launching 'Dual' Attacks
Decipher, Friday, September 29,2023
The FBI is warning of dual ransomware attacks, where victim organizations are hit with two different types of ransomware variants in quick succession - sometimes within 48 hours of each other.
Several factors are enabling these types of dual attacks. Attackers are getting quicker when it comes to exploiting zero day vulnerabilities. At the same time, the ransomware threat landscape is becoming both more crowded, and initial access brokers are reselling access to victim systems. For victims, these dual ransomware attacks result in data being encrypted or exfiltrated multiple times, making incident response even more complex and difficult. This could potentially "significantly harm" impacted organizations, said the FBI.