Global Ransomware Chronicles: Key Trends for Professionals

SOCRadar’s Global Ransomware report provides a data-driven overview of ransomware activity in 2024, detailing financial impacts (including record payouts and projected damages), incident volume increases, industries and geographies most affected, and the most active ransomware groups and common attack methods (exploited vulnerabilities, compromised credentials, and malicious email). The report emphasizes growing scale and sophistication—double extortion, RaaS, and AI-enabled techniques—while recommending proactive, intelligence-driven defenses, incident response readiness, and robust backups.