2021 Ransomware Threat Report

A New Era of Threat

Security teams in both the private and public sector are being forced to rethink their strategies for dealing with ransomware, as existing defenses repeatedly prove inadequate. The signature-based defenses that organizations rely on are too slow, static, and siloed to meaningfully stop fast-moving, sophisticated threats. 

This threat report explores emerging trends in attacker techniques and includes seven real-world ransomware attacks discovered and stopped by Darktrace’s AI in customer environments.