As of July 2023, a new trend of dual ransomware attacks conducted close to one another. During these attacks, cyber threat actors deployed two different ransomware variants against victim companies from the following variants: AvosLocker, Diamond, Hive, Karakurt, LockBit, Quantum, and Royal. Variants are deployed in various combinations.
- This use of dual ransomware variants resulted in a combination of data encryption, exfiltration, and financial losses from ransom payments.
- Second, ransomware attacks against a compromised system could significantly harm victim entities.
- We can assist you with implementing mitigations to reduce the probability and impact of compromise by ransomware