Attacchi ransomware più frequenti e sofisticati

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Research, in particular, shows that ransomware attacks globally during 2021 and 2022 became increasingly frequent and sophisticated, thus representing one of the main problems for organizations of all sizes . Attacks they predict are the encryption of company data and the request for a decryption key in exchange for a ransom payment , which then has a significant impact on the company, both from a financial point of view and operational, with a loss of revenue, damage to reputation and, in some cases, permanent damage or dissemination of confidential information.

The analysis shows that small and medium-sized enterprises are the most targeted: in both 2021 and 2022, most attacks affected organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees and almost 60% of companies targeted in 2021 and 2022 saudi arabia rcs data had fewer than 250 employees. Even considering turnover, companies with consolidated revenues between 1 and 50 million accounted for almost 60% of attacks in both 2022 and 2021.


Most affected geographical areas
At the level of geographical areas, North America confirms itself in first place worldwide by number of attacks, although the region recorded a decrease between 2021 and 2022 (-10%). Europe follows with 26.73% of attacks in 2021 and 29.73% in 2022 and Asia with 9.82% in 2021 and 15.41% in 2022. Even taking into account the main groups ransomware - in detail Lockbits, Black Cat e Conti - in 2021 North America was targeted by 48 groups ransomware , which increased to 57 in 2022; Europe of the 48 groups ransomware , which increased to 51 in 2022 - with the UK, Germany, Italy, France and Spain that accounted for more than 70% of these attacks -; While Asia was attacked by 45 ransomware groups in 2021, that number rose to 51 in 2022. Finally, Russia also saw a 9% increase in ransomware attacks in 2022 compared to 2021.