July 2026 Threat Trend Report on Ransomware

July 2026 ransomware trend report: widespread global ransomware and data-exfiltration activity impacted multiple sectors (notably manufacturing, IT, wholesale, healthcare and finance) with the US reporting the most cases. The report documents top victim counts, rankings of prolific ransomware groups (Gentlemen, Qilin, DragonForce, etc.), the rise of many new data-stealing/ransomware groups, DLS leak trends, observed IOCs (leaked servers, disguised SOCKS5 proxy and suspicious executables), and recommends urgent patching, supply-chain access audits, network segmentation, stronger backups, and continuous threat intelligence-driven monitoring.