{"id":20569,"date":"2022-02-21T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2022\/02\/21\/sonicwall-threat-intelligence-confirms-alarming-surge-in-ransomware-malicious-cyberattacks-as-threats-double-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T05:30:00","slug":"sonicwall-threat-intelligence-confirms-alarming-surge-in-ransomware-malicious-cyberattacks-as-threats-double-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2022\/02\/21\/sonicwall-threat-intelligence-confirms-alarming-surge-in-ransomware-malicious-cyberattacks-as-threats-double-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"SonicWall Threat Intelligence Confirms Alarming Surge in Ransomware, Malicious Cyberattacks as Threats Double in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\">\n<ul>\n<li>Over 623 million ransomware attacks globally, an astounding 105% increase<\/li>\n<li>Ransomware volume increased 232% since 2019<\/li>\n<li>U.S., U.K. ransomware climbed staggering 98% and 227%, respectively<\/li>\n<li>Asia saw a 121.682% increase in ransomware attack YoY<\/li>\n<li>India saw an increase of 981% of ransomware attacks in 2021, while Japan saw a 63.55% increase of Malware attacks compared to 2021<\/li>\n<li>Log4j vulnerability exploits eclipsed 142 million in six weeks<\/li>\n<li>65% increase in &#8216;never-before-seen&#8217; malware variants identified<\/li>\n<li>Encrypted threats increased 167% year-over-year<\/li>\n<li>Record 97.1 million cryptojacking attacks found\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\" rel=\"sponsored\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 21 February 2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonicwall.com\/\" rel=\"sponsored\">SonicWall<\/a>, the publisher of the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nmost quoted ransomware threat intelligence, today released the 2022 SonicWall<br \/>\nCyber Threat Report. The bi-annual report details a sustained meteoric rise in ransomware with<br \/>\n623.3 million attacks globally. Nearly all monitored threats, cyberattacks and<br \/>\nmalicious digital assaults rose in 2021 including: ransomware, encrypted<br \/>\nthreats, IoT malware and cryptojacking.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cyberattacks become more\u00a0attractive and potentially\u00a0more\u00a0disastrous as dependence\u00a0on information technology\u00a0increases,&#8221; said SonicWall President and CEO Bill<br \/>\nConner. &#8220;Securing information in a boundless\u00a0world is a near impossible<br \/>\nand thankless job, especially as the boundaries of organizations are<br \/>\never-expanding to limitless endpoints and networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Ransomware&#8217;s Savage Reign<br \/>\nContinues as Attacks Increase 105%<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SonicWall<br \/>\nCapture Labs threat researchers diligently tracked the dramatic rise in<br \/>\nransomware, recording an astounding 318.6 million more ransomware attacks than<br \/>\n2020, a 105% increase. Ransomware volume has risen 232% since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>High-profile ransomware attacks<br \/>\nimpacted businesses, state and federal governments,<br \/>\nschools, hospitals and even individuals. Attacks hit supply chains,<br \/>\ncausing widespread system\u00a0downtime,<br \/>\neconomic loss\u00a0and reputational damage. Following global trends, all<br \/>\nindustries faced large increases of ransomware volume, including government<br \/>\n(+1,885%), healthcare (755%), education (152%) and retail (21%).<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware has developed into a<br \/>\nmassive and systemic threat that is forecasted to get worse. Across the globe,<br \/>\nU.S. and U.K. climbed a staggering<br \/>\n98% and 227% respectively. In Asia, ransomware attacks also leapt in 2021 with a 121.682%<br \/>\nincrease YoY, with India and Japan also saw alarming rises of 981% and 63.55%<br \/>\nrespectively, in IoT malware volume.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Debasish Mukherjee, Vice<br \/>\nPresident, Regional Sales-APAC at SonicWall <\/b>adds, &#8220;With threats of almost every type on<br \/>\nthe rise, is it imperative that we have strategies and resilience systems in<br \/>\nplace to respond almost instantaneously. Especially in Asia Pacific where many<br \/>\nhave been the target of these malicious attacks in a new paradigm for<br \/>\ncybercrime, all the more our findings in the 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report<br \/>\nwill help us to find the right security measures to protect our greatest assets<br \/>\nand be a step ahead to prevent unwanted and damaging attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>As Cyberattack Vectors Expand, Malicious<br \/>\nAssaults Climb<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The frequency<br \/>\nand<span class=\"apple converted space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>variety of cyberattacks<\/em><span class=\"apple converted space\">\u00a0<\/span>continue to expand every year, with an<br \/>\nincreasing cost to organizations worldwide. SMBs and enterprises are<br \/>\nprogressively threatened by an assortment of cyberattacks, and without knowing<br \/>\nwhat they are, or how cybercriminals operate, protecting business-critical data<br \/>\nfrom cyberattacks becomes unmanageable. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attacks on networks rose to a fever pitch in 2021,&#8221; said SonicWall Vice President of<br \/>\nPlatform Architecture Dmitriy Ayrapetov. &#8220;Ransomware, cryptojacking,<br \/>\nvulnerably exploitation, phishing and other attacks continue to plague<br \/>\norganizations around the world and overwhelm security teams. It&#8217;s important to<br \/>\nunderstand the breakdown of these attacks and why they continue to be<br \/>\nsuccessful, as well as the drivers and trends behind them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Insight on additional cyber threats include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Apache Log4j <\/b>vulnerabilities were quickly exploited, with threat<br \/>\nactors logging 142.2 million exploit attempts between Dec. 11 and Jan. 31 \u2014 an<br \/>\naverage of 2.7 million each day. Within three days of the public disclosure, exploit<br \/>\nattempts had already passed the 1 million mark.<\/li>\n<li><b>Malware<\/b> volume was slightly down again in 2021, marking both a third-straight year of decrease as well as a seven-year low. However, an uptick in attacks during the second half of 2021 almost completely erased the 22% drop in malware that SonicWall had recorded at the mid-year point, bringing the total decrease for 2021 to just 4% \u2014 suggesting malware numbers may rebound in 2022.<\/li>\n<li><b>Encrypted<br \/>\nthreats <\/b>increased<br \/>\n167% year-over-year. In August, the number of encrypted attacks broke the 1<br \/>\nmillion mark for the first time, then continued to rise, reaching nearly 2.5<br \/>\nmillion by year&#8217;s end.<\/li>\n<li><b>Cryptojacking<\/b> continued to surge last year, rising 19% globally to<br \/>\n97.1 million, which is the most attacks that SonicWall Capture Labs threat<br \/>\nresearchers have ever recorded in a single year.<\/li>\n<li><b>IoT malware<\/b> volume rose 6% in 2021, totaling 60.1 million hits by<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s end. While this isn&#8217;t good news, it&#8217;s at least better than it has been:<br \/>\nIn 2019 and 2020, IoT malware volume rose 218% and 66%, respectively. With no<br \/>\ncorresponding slowdown in the proliferation of connected devices, this suggests<br \/>\nthat attack volumes may be leveling off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Smarter Than Ever, RTDMI Discovered<br \/>\n65% More &#8216;Never-before-seen&#8217; Malware Variants<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SonicWall&#8217;s patented Real-Time<br \/>\nDeep Memory Inspection<sup>TM<\/sup> (RTDMI) technology identified a total of<br \/>\n442,151 never-before-seen malware variants in 2021, a 65% year-over-year increase<br \/>\nand an average of 1,211 per day. In Q4, RTDMI found more never-before-seen<br \/>\nmalware variants than in any quarter since its introduction in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SonicWall Advanced Threat Protection<br \/>\n(ATP) with RTDMI recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonicwall.com\/resources\/white-papers\/icsa-q4-2021-advanced-threat-defense-atd-certification-testing-report\/\" rel=\"sponsored\">earned<br \/>\nits fourth consecutive &#8216;perfect score&#8217; in the ICSA Labs ATD testing for Q4 2021<\/a>. ICSA Labs is an independent third\u00a0party<br \/>\nthat tested SonicWall&#8217;s solutions using\u00a0never-before-seen\u00a0malware<br \/>\nsamples, and over the course of the entire year (2021) SonicWall technology did<br \/>\nnot miss a single malware sample nor produced one false positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about SonicWall and<br \/>\nget the complete 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonicwall.com\/threatreport\" rel=\"sponsored\">sonicwall.com\/ThreatReport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/singapore\/2022\/02\/21\/120921\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 623 million ransomware attacks globally, an astounding 105% increase Ransomware volume increased 232% since 2019 U.S., U.K. ransomware climbed staggering 98% and 227%, respectively Asia saw a 121.682% increase in ransomware attack YoY India saw an increase of 981% of ransomware attacks in 2021, while Japan saw a 63.55% increase of Malware attacks compared &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}