2021 Report Threat Ransomware

Security teams in both the private and public sector are being forced to rethink their strategies for dealing with ransomware, as existing defenses repeatedly prove inadequate. The signature-based defenses that organizations rely on are too slow, static, and siloed to meaningfully stop fast-moving, sophisticated threats.

This threat report explores emerging trends in attacker techniques and includes seven real-world ransomware attacks discovered and stopped by Darktrace’s AI in customer environments.

Darktrace’s data is developed by ‘early indicator analysis’ that looks at the breadcrumbs of potential cyber-attacks at several stages before they are attributed to any particular actor and before they escalate into a full-blown crisis. Darktrace’s findings show that its artificial intelligence autonomously interrupted an average of 150,000 threats per week against the sector in 2021.