If we look into cyber news, ransomware attacks are all over the place. But the truth of the matter is that ransomware assaults in the last year were decreased by 70 percent, according to a report. This number is at odds with the extent of ransomware damage reported last year.
The report, however, also answers this question by telling us that more variants of cryptovirological strains were released amid the significant drop in ransomware attacks. SonicWall is a cybersecurity agency that has gathered data from more than 200 different territories to establish these findings.
What Could be the Reason?
Cryptovirology is a serious and challenging threat to the cyber community, but not all cryptographic codes are complex in nature. Different third-party software applications can easily help with ransomware removal without playing into the hands of cybercriminals. Therefore, many cybercriminals who couldn’t launch complex cryptovirological attacks have resorted to DDoS assaults.
On the other hand, introducing new variants with some tweaks in cryptovirological strains is more effective in making ransomware infiltrations successful. For every different algorithm of encryption, digital security experts have to develop unique decrypter for ransomware removal, which takes time and resources. This helps the attackers to have successful bargains regarding extortion payment for ransomware removal.
So, this could be the reason why ransomware operators are now focused on introducing new variants instead of launching more attacks. In our last blog, we have discussed different ransomware variants that were surfaced last week. The number of new variants in a single week is also a substantiation of the fact that the strategy of ransomware operators has been shifted.
Never-Diminishing Popularity of DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks are maintaining their reputation among cybercriminals because of their nature. While ransomware infiltrations are focused to make the data of the affected devices hostage, DDoS attacks always try to sabotage the services rendered by a device or network.
As we know, you can replicate data and store it in a backup but there is no similar technology that exists for using the services until you fully recover the affected device or get a new one altogether.
