Security News > 2021 > July > Tracking Malware and Ransomware Domains in 2021

Here, we'll take a look at actual malware domain traffic and how it correlates to ransomware attacks in the news.

In many ways, it's exactly what cybersecurity experts expected after the major cyber attacks of 2020-including hospital ransomware attacks on a healthcare industry hard-hit by both ransomware and Covid-19.

At the beginning of the year, security researchers discovered a new ransomware threat in Babuk ransomware.

The timeline of when this ransomware was particularly active coincides with when traffic to malicious domains can be found on the DNSFilter network.

Malware will often linger for 800 days before discovery, though ransomware attacks usually have a shorter average timeframe of 43 days from the first occurrence to discovery because of its attack method.

If you're interested in learning more about how extortion ransomware's impact on our critical infrastructure, join us for a Cybersecurity panel on double extortion ransomware on August 25 with Jen Ayers of DNSFilter and Wias Issa of Ubiq.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/tracking-malware-and-ransomware-domains-2021/167933/