« The latest report from Blackfog (blackfog.com) shows 66 publicly disclosed ransomware attacks, the highest recorded since the company began reporting in January 2020. More concerning still is a significant uptick in the attack success rate, with a 154 percent increase over 2022. There's been a concerted effort to attack law firms as part of a +233% increase in attacks on the services industry. #Healthcare, technology, #education & #government all saw more attacks with increases of +81%, +57%, +42% & +33% respectively during May 2023. In terms of variants, this month we saw #LockBit & #BlackCat continue to dominate with 18.4% & 17.6% respectively, very similar to last month. This is consistent with unreported attacks, also dominated by LockBit and BlackCat, with 39.7% & 13.8% respectively. Finally, illegal networks now dominate exfiltration techniques with 97% of all attacks, with a large majority originating & exfiltrating data to #China 42% of the time, with #Russia at 10%. We attribute the lower exfiltration to Russia due to the effect of sanctions, making it difficult to procure, launch & exfiltrate data to this nation. » #ransomware #databreach #business [ https://betanews.com/2023/06/05/ransomware-targets-specific-industries-as-attack-success-rate-soars/ ] #informatique