IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Non-mobile statistics

IT threat evolution in Q3 2024 IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Mobile statistics The statistics presented here are based on detection verdicts by Kaspersky products and services received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures In Q3 2024: Kaspersky solutions successfully blocked more than 652 million cyberattacks originating from various online resources. Web Anti-Virus detected 109 million unique links. File Anti-Virus blocked more than 23 million malicious and potentially unwanted objects. More than 90,000 users experienced ransomware attacks. Nearly 18% of all victims published on ransomware gangs’ data leak sites (DLSs) had been hit by RansomHub. More than 297,000 users experienced miner attacks. Ransomware Quarterly trends and highlights Progress in law enforcement In August, Spain arrested a cybercriminal who founded Ransom Cartel in 2021 and set up a malvertizing campaign. According to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), this individual also was behind the infamous Reveton ransomware Trojan spread in 2012 — 2014. Reveton was among the most notorious PC screen lockers. This type of cyberextortion predated Trojans, which encrypt the victim’s files. Two other cybercriminals, arrested earlier and suspected of spreading LockBit, pleaded guilty. In 2020 — 2023, one of them was an active cyberextortionist who attacked organizations in several countries, causing a total of at least $1.9 million in damage. The other one, according to the source, had caused damage estimated at roughly $500,000. Vulnerability exploitation attacks Ransomware gangs continue to exploit software vulnerabilities, mostly to penetrate networks and escalate their privileges. In September the Akira ransomware attacked SonicWall devices powered by SonicOS to exploit the CVE-2024-40766 vulnerability in the operating system, patched in August. Akira and Black Basta launched ransomware attacks on VMware ESXi by