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Ransomware index report: November 2022

by Dain Oh, Areum Hwang, Sangseon Kim, Sojun Ryu

Dec. 09, 2022
11:05 AM GMT+9

The Readable’s subscribers can access a monthly ransomware report by S2W. The report includes specific numbers about ransomware groups and their victims in addition to the numbers of newly opened data leak sites by ransomware groups. By looking at the numbers, our readers will be able to get an idea of the overall threat landscape of the ransomware ecosystem. Sojun Ryu for The Readable provides reports representing his team’s work regarding threat intelligence.


Takeaways

In November 2022:

  1. A total of 185 companies’ data were uploaded onto leak sites by ransomware groups.
  2. LockBit was the most active ransomware group, uploading 30 companies’ data onto their leak sites. However, its activity appeared less active compared to the previous month, in which it uploaded 56 companies’ data onto leak sites.
  3. Companies in the United States were targeted the most by ransomware groups, making up 45.3% of the total percentage.

Specifics

Newly discovered data leak sites in November 2022

Ransomware groups and activities in November 2022: Percentage of each ransomware group in companies that were uploaded onto data leak sites

Top five countries by number of leak sites their data appeared on

Top five industries by number of leak sites their data appeared on

The next monthly ransomware index report will be published through the first newsletter in January 2023.

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