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Our first “Ransomware in a global context” report offered an overview on how ransomware attacks evolved since 2020, highlighting GanCrab’s supremacy in 2020 and its rebranding as REvil with a different targeting. On the bright side, law enforcement agencies have been very active conducting dozens of operations in the last months, including the arrest of several REvil affiliates.
We wanted to reflect on this and other recurrent questions we received since the publication of our report with our colleague Vlad Stolyarov from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) to help provide some further insights into them.You can also find some of the answers and great additional content in our beloved Cloud Security Podcast by Anton Chuvakin and Tim Peacock Episode 45 “VirusTotal Insights on Ransomware Business and Technology”Insights on ransomware attacks