Evolving Ransomware Tactics

Ransomware gangs are adapting to stronger defenses by favoring data theft and extortion over encryption, leveraging remote access trojans (75% of incidents) and abusing remote monitoring/management tools (17.3%) and legitimate admin utilities to evade EDR. This shift compresses time-to-ransom (average ~17 hours, some groups down to 6 hours) and broadens impact across enterprises and smaller businesses, exploiting weak data loss prevention in remote and BYOD environments.