Ransomware threats growing
Hyderabad: In this age of data-driven digitization, web-based crimes are growing and a recent report has revealed that ransomware groups are becoming more sophisticated, bold and growing by volume. Since April till September, the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVEs) associated with ransomware has seen an increase of 4.5 per cent, while ransomware families have grown […]
Hyderabad: In this age of data-driven digitization, web-based crimes are growing and a recent report has revealed that ransomware groups are becoming more sophisticated, bold and growing by volume. Since April till September, the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVEs) associated with ransomware has seen an increase of 4.5 per cent, while ransomware families have grown by 3.4 per cent, and older vulnerabilities tied to ransomware have gone up by 1.2 per cent.
In terms of an organisation, ransomware is a malware wherein the cybercriminals hold the organisations files, databases, or applications with them and demand a certain ransom to provide access to the data. The Ransomware Index Spotlight Report conducted by Ivanti in association with Cyber Security Works and Cyware showcased that they uncovered 12 new vulnerabilities tied to ransomware between July to September this year. “The total number of vulnerabilities associated with ransomware increased to 278 and out of the 12 new vulnerabilities, five are capable of remote code execution attacks and two can exploit web applications,” a release said.
The report also identified six new active and trending vulnerabilities associated with ransomware, bringing the total to 140, and five new ransomware families, bringing the total to 151. The analysis also revealed that ransomware groups are leveraging newer, more sophisticated techniques, such as dropper-as-a-service and trojan-as-a-service, in attacks.
Ivanti Senior V-P of Security Products Srinivas Mukkamala said, “Ransomware groups continue to mature their tactics, expand their attack arsenals, and target unpatched vulnerabilities across enterprise attack surfaces. With this report, we aim to help organizations realize the security risk and vulnerability exposure of their environments and endpoints and provide actionable intelligence to remediate faster.”
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