Last Week in Ransomware: 02.12.2024

This report summarizes recent ransomware activity and trends: a high-impact attack on Lurie Children’s Hospital that disrupted patient care and is framed as cyberterrorism, evidence that automation is drastically reducing time-to-infection through RDP exploitation and other TTPs, a report that 2023 ransom payments exceeded $1 billion with significant unreported incidents, and U.S. actions including a $10M bounty targeting the Hive gang — underscoring escalating ransomware sophistication, scale, and real-world impact.