Mandiant: Ransomware Investigations Up 20% In 2023
Search Security, Monday, June 3rd, 2024
The cybersecurity company observed a sharp rise in activity on data leak sites in 2023 as well as an increase in ransomware actors using legitimate commercial tools during attacks.
Mandiant is the latest vendor to report alarming ransomware trends throughout 2023, particularly related to increases in data theft and public data leak site activity.
In a blog post on Monday, Google Cloud's Mandiant detailed an overall increase in the number of ransomware families, shifts in deployment timelines and prevalent tools threat actors used during attacks. The research was based on incident response cases where victim organizations directly engaged Mandiant's services.