140 percent plus: Remote ransomware increases rapidly

Recent findings from the field of remote ransomware: Security specialists' research has already revealed an enormous increase of 62 percent in remote encryption attacks at the end of 2023 compared to the previous year. In new investigations of telemetry data, Sophos X-Ops recorded an increase of 50 percent in 2024 and a cumulative increase of 141 percent since 2022. Remote encryption is not new, but is increasingly used by modern ransomware grou…