Storm Watch | Cyber News | Declining Ransomware Payments & Rising Cyber Threats

Summary: This episode of GreyNoise's Storm Watch covers a decline in ransomware payments as victims increasingly choose not to pay, alongside the frequency of cyberattacks that go unnoticed by the public. It cites the Dragos Industrial Ransomware Report for Q4 showing a growing number of groups involved in ransomware attacks, a German job posting for a Windows 3.11 administrator on a rail line, recent attacks on HPE and Microsoft, and CISA's new Water and Wastewater Sector Incident Response Guide.
What's compelling: The Dragos Q4 report shows more groups running ransomware attacks even as payments fall - so a lower payout rate is not the same as lower pressure on your operations.

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