Summary
Researchers discovered that the self-propagating WannaCry ransomware that has been targeting organizations since 2017 was by far the most identified ransomware family in January 2022, it was concluded that WannaCry ransomware holds a biggest share of 43% of the total infections. The analysis used a dataset of 10.5 million infections, with about 4.5 million of those being WannaCry infections.
This demonstrates that not only are ransomware attacks on the rise, but threat actors are also succeeding in infiltrating systems with years-old software.
Recommendations
- Companies must keep their systems up to date.
- Organizations SHOULD ALWAYS keep an eye on network traffic for malicious activity sent by threat actors.
- Organizations must regularly raise awareness about social engineering instances and offer workshops and trainings on how to protect themselves from such attacks.
- Using intrusion detection and prevention systems will assist keep the network in good shape.
- Make use of advanced e-mail security software.
- Make use of powerful end-point protection and detection solutions that include ransomware rollback capabilities.
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