CYBERSECURITY -

Ransomware Hitting U.S. Companies at Increasing Rate -

Unfortunately, according to Unit 42 of Palo Alto’s recently published “Ransomware and Extortion Report,” ransomware groups had a good year in 2022. They found that threat actors are using multi-extortion tactics to get paid by victims, including data exfiltration. In addition, there was “a 49% increase in victims reported by ransomware leak sites, with a total of 3,998 posts from various ransomware groups.”