Latest Report Findings: Retail Trade Faces 111% Jump in Ransomware

## Executive Summary: This retail-sector threat landscape brief highlights spearphishing as the top initial access vector, a 111% year-over-year surge in ransomware with 379 companies listed on leak sites, rising impersonating domains observed on dark-web forums, and activity attributed to the financially motivated actor "IntelBroker"; it stresses increased risk from e-commerce platform exploitation, supply-chain attacks, and abuse of AI, and recommends automated response, digital risk protection, and strong encryption as mitigations.