The number of organizations impacted by ransomware globally has more than doubled in the first half of 2021 compared with 2020.
The healthcare and utilities sectors are the most targeted sectors while organizations in Asia Pacific are targeted more than any other region.
Since April, researchers at Check Point Research (CPR) have seen an average of over 1,000 organizations being impacted by ransomware every week.
Prominent attacks that have taken place at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 point at a new attack chain – essentially an expansion to the double extortion ransomware technique, integrating an additional, unique threat to the process – that CPR calls the Triple Extortion.
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