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2022 State of the Threat: Ransomware is still hitting companies hard.

The ransomware landscape has not changed in terms of volume, yet the researchers from SecureWorks report that incident response engagements in May and June 2022 saw the rate of successful ransomware attacks reduce.

Several reasons might explain the decrease in successful ransomware attacks, in particular the disruptive effect of the war in Ukraine on ransomware threat actors, the economic sanctions designed to create friction for ransomware operators and the demise of Gold Ulrick's Conti ransomware-as-a-service operation.

Business email compromise stays as a major threat alongside ransomware in 2022.

North Korean threat actors still focus on financial attacks, especially on cryptocurrencies.

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