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Due to the proliferation of cloud-native environments, ransomware attacks have increased dramatically in recent years. Cybercriminals can access a variety of ransomware tools from anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice. This capability has produced an entire economy of Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). Despite significant investment in real-time infrastructure security tools, organizations are failing to quickly identify and recover from an attack.

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Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their operations, the methods they use to breach an organization’s defenses and their tactics for monetizing their efforts. In the CrowdStrike 2022 Global Threat Report, we examined how the frequency and sophistication of ransomware attacks has grown in the past year.

Emotet, one of the most pervasive and destructive botnets in use today, first appeared in 2014. Despite its age, Emotet is still going strong and shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon.

CrowdStrike believes that continuous testing and evaluation by third-party organizations is critical in helping customers make informed decisions about which security solution best fits their needs. This is why CrowdStrike continues to participate in more third-party testing than any other next-gen endpoint cybersecurity vendor.

As the internet grows, so does the sophistication and capabilities of cyber attacks. Cybercriminals constantly develop new ways to exploit even the most complex networks and servers. One of the newer types of attacks caused major headlines in 2020 and continues to be a force to be reckoned with for even the largest companies and organizations. It's called a double extortion ransomware attack. Becoming a victim of these vicious attacks can lead to devastating consequences.

In April 2022, Netskope Threat Labs analyzed an Emotet campaign that was using LNK files instead of Microsoft Office documents, likely as a response to the protections launched by Microsoft in 2022 to mitigate attacks via Excel 4.0 (XLM) and VBA macros.