Ransomware attacks jump in July, should this be a surprise?

As we learned in our blog post talking about subscriptions, it may come with nasties like Agent Tesla (Check Point Software) and even others. But this isn’t the only nasty you can get, as that one is a Rat.

If you remember us talking about gangs like REvil, you know how back then it was just a single payment, if not a duel.

Now, there are more forms of payment they can use, not in the crypto currency aspect, but how many times you can get picked, or even what they want with each attack.

This leads us to the Cyberscoop article Ransomware attacks jump as new malware strains proliferate, research finds and ransomware is not the only malware out there.

As you’ve learned with Agent Tesla, it can do quite a number on your device, especially if you use a computer.

While I’ve not read the link thoroughly, we know that Trend Micro talked about that one some time back, so search it out.

Remember too, that malware can come in many forms, see all of our Android notices within the past month.

The Security Box and Throwback teams indicate that the total number of Android malware that was found to date in August alone was 201. That leads IOS with only 7 that we know of.

As we stated Saturday, it seems like a game of threes. IOS 7, Android 201.

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The number of incidents were 135 in June to 198 in July. How they get these numbers, I don’t know, as in the throwback program we did last Saturday, I got three files alone in an email address we just don’t make public. Its specific to email list subscriptions that I’m on. That’s why I included a link in my prior article about this in the subscription aspect because it doesn’t matter what type of malware it is, its all bad.

We know that a French hospital was targeted

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and that honestly doesn’t matter to the actors.

Hospitals have been the higher target ever since the pandemic, even though actors stated they “wouldn’t go after critical infrastructure” which included hospitals at that time.

Lockbit was associated with only 62 incidents which was only 20% higher than June. We know that Lockbit is probably not the most major threat because of Emotet coming back, but they all work together to get their wares out there.

Let me know what you think of this Cyberscoop article, and we’ll be on the lookout for comments. There are more links to groups covered and what is happening with them, and I don’t want to cover every single thing in the article.

Let the boards begin.