2023 Ransomware Report Highlights

Join GRF analysts for a review of the most recent GRF ransomware report, covering the first half of 2023. In this reporting period, analysts tracked 1,650 attacks based on public sources and conversations of threat actors in closed criminal forums.

Some findings that will be elaborated on in the session:

• Critical Manufacturing was the most targeted industry followed by Financial Services, IT, and Commercial Facilities
• June saw the most victims in a single month since the beginning of this series
• Most attacks were committed by LockBit ransomware
• The US experienced the majority of ransomware attacks, followed by the EU and UK
• This period saw extensive use of zero day vulnerabilities and increased use of Living off the Land attacks