Organizations have experienced a 29% increase in cyber-attacksglobally.The EMEA region showed the highest growth with 36%, followed by the Americas with an increase of 34% with APAC witnessing a 13% growth in attacks.

The number of ransomware attacks is growing for a simple reason, hackers are getting paid. Willingness to pay creates dangerous increase. Cyber risk insurance is becoming common, so companies do not hesitate to pay cybercriminals.

Trickbot which is a botnet and banking Trojan that can steal financial details, account credentials, and personally identifiable information, as well as spread within a network and drop ransomware, particularly Ryuk.

Among the DNS activity findings: users in 70 percent of organizations got malicious browser ads. Furthermore, 51 percent of organizations encountered ransomware-related activity. Another 48 percent found information-stealing malware activity.

It took 8.8 days, on average, for threats to become known by hash to antivirus engines – giving hackers over a week’s ‘head-start’ to further their campaigns.