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Cyber Risks · Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks

Unit 42 Ransomware and Extortion Report Highlights: Multi-Extortion Tactics Continue to Rise

Summary: Unit 42's 2023 report found data theft in about 70% of its ransomware cases as of late 2022, up from roughly 40% in mid-2021, with threat actors threatening to leak stolen data on dark web leak sites. Harassment of specific individuals, often in the C-suite, was a factor in about 20% of ransomware cases by late 2022, compared with less than 1% in mid-2021.

What's compelling: Harassment went from under 1% to about 20% of cases in roughly eighteen months, meaning your executives and staff are now targets in the extortion itself, not just bystanders to a technical incident.

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