- Ransomware attacks are rapidly increasing in the United States
- Computer pirates are focusing on the exfiltration of data
- Oil and gas are becoming increasingly popular among threat actors
The United States is now the world capital of Ransomware. Most attacks are directed to US organizations, and in the last year, the number of attacks has triggered dramatically. These are the conclusions resonated in the Ransomware 2025 report, published by cybersecurity experts Zscaler threat.
Using patented data, as well as samples and information collected from the wider Internet, Zscaler researchers determined that 50%of all ransomware attacks in the last year occurred in the United States, “exceeding significantly” to Canada (5%) and the United Kingdom (4%).
Even when you combine all the attacks reported in the 15 most directed countries, there are less than 3,671 that were reported in the United States.
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The number of attacks is also increasing. Year after year, it increases by 146% in the US, with manufacturing (1,063), technology (922) and medical care (672) which are the most directed industries, mainly for the potential for operational interruption, the sensitive of stolen data and the risk of regulatory pressure and reputational damage. Companies in the oil and gas sector saw an “amazing” increase in ransomware attacks, 900% year -on -year.
Zscaler also said that ransomware actors are increasingly abandoning the encryption part of the attack and focus only on data theft. In the last year, 10 of the largest ransomware groups exfiled 238 TB of data, 92% more than the 123 TB last year.
At this time, the most important names in the Ransomware space are Ransomhub (833 victims), Akira (520) and Clop (488), but the number of threat actors is also increasing. Only in the last year, the researchers identified 34 recently active ransomware families, which raised the total number to 425.
The “flourish” ransomware in environments with fragmented security, limited visibility, implicit confidence and obsolete inherited architectures, Zscaler tensions, urging companies to mitigate these threats by adopting a native cloud architecture, based on AI, with zero confidence network.
