Do you know that ransomware attack is at its peak? In the second quarter of this year, RYUK led the charge with the most number of ransomware attacks.
Ransomware has witnessed a huge increase in 2021, with global attack volume growing by 151 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period the previous year. Additionally, the FBI has expressed concern that more than 100 different types of viruses are already spreading over the globe.
The ransomware outbreak hit an astonishing 304.7 million attacks within the telemetry of SonicWall Capture Labs in a hard-number perspective. The corporation has recorded 304,6 million ransomware attack attempts for 2020 as a whole in order to bring that forward.
According to a recent mid-year study by SonicWall, the top three ransomware strains seen in the wilderness are Ryuk, Cerber and SamSam.
Top Variants: Ransomware Attack
In the first half, SonicWall researchers documented 93.9 million cases of Ryuk in terms of the three most frequent varieties of ransomware and ran it to position number 1 – a number tripled in the number of Ryuk tests in the first half of 2020.
In the first half of 2021, scientists also observed Cerber being employed in 52.5 million hits logged. Cerber, the number of attacks has almost quadrupled in April and has increased to over five times the level of January by May. Cerber is clearly on the rise, researchers say.
Finally, for the first half SamSam registered 49.7 million instances — more than double as volumes saw for the whole year 2020 — in the first half of SonicWall figures. Researchers reported that June alone saw 15.7 million hits, more than two-thirds of last year’s 23.5 million SamSam hits.
Record Breaking Cyber Attacks
According to SonicWall, the level of attacks seems to be increasing. The volume of Ransomware surged from 115.8 million Q1 attacks to 188.9 million in Q2 attacks.
Despite the fact that there will be no ransomware attacks in the second half (which is overly optimistic), 2021 will go down in history as by far the worst year for ransomware that SonicWall has ever tracked.
Furthermore, every month in the second quarter hit a new high.
“The ransomware grew again in May after it climbed to another high in April, and then watched it rise again in June,” experts stated. “During the same month, 78.4 million ransomware attempts were documented, which is higher than the whole first quarter of 2020 and over half the overall number of assaults for 2019.”
A Global Problem: Ransomware
The survey concluded that ransomware does not only rise, it’s a problem worldwide.
According to SonicWall, Europe was feeling the brunt of the volume rises at 234% in ransomware attacks in the first half. North America hadn’t been too far behind, with 180 percent of the ransomware volume in the area.
The news is better for Asia, which has only 59% of its ransomware hits every year. However, the volume of the onslaught began to decrease when it achieved a peak in March. By June, the number of attacks was only roughly a fifth as high as three months ago.
While Europe has experienced the most suffering as a region, the United States has reported the most ransomware attacks far and wide, study shows that the volume of attacks in the US increased 185% from last year’s first half.
“In reality, the USA had almost as many sweets as the other nine countries put together…times four,” according to the research. “In the top 10 countries for ransomware volume.
In the second-class country of the UK, the Ransomware volume surged 144%.
The Most Targeted Is The Government Sector
The government was the most targeted sector in 2021 by an overwhelming majority. By June, according to analysts, government customers saw almost 10 times the usual ransomware attempts. However, this status is interpreted by the devil in detail.
In the first half of 2021, government clients experienced more ransomware assaults than the norm, while education clients experienced more in three out of six months.
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