Ransomware attacks, or ransomwarehas grown steadily since the early 2010s and over the years has become more sophisticated and often targeted at specific targets. In recent years, police around the world have put more resources into fighting both the criminal groups that carry out the attacks and those that building the hate programs.
By 2024, these efforts have begun to bear fruit. In February, for example, the police cracked down on Lockbit, one of the most widely used malware programs. Lockbits pages forward dark web has been shut down and the number of attacks has decreased, but the malware has not completely disappeared and members of the group behind it have continued to carry out attacks.
Analyst Alan Lizka at Recorded Future tells Tech Crunch despite more than 20 successful attacks, 2024 is likely to be a record year for hate attacks, and the coming years could be even worse.
Alan Liska says that many attacks today are carried out by English-speaking teenagers. This relates, for example, to the strike at MGM Hotels and possibly also the strike against local London transport in the autumn. One difference from before is that many hate rings now don’t bother to encrypt their victims’ computers, but are happy to steal any files they can come across and then threaten to publish everything on the internet.
A recommendation for authorities to start dealing with the problem is to prevent organizations from paying ransoms.
– It is a poor solution, but it may be the least solution we have.
2024-11-03 13:59:00
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