Bridewell, a UK-based cybersecurity services company, has released its latest CTI Annual Report, a comprehensive deep dive into ransomware trends. It highlighted a significant shift in attack strategies, payment dynamics, and threat actor behaviors, revealing that data theft and extortion have overtaken traditional encryption-only ransomware as the most successful approach for attackers. While encryption-based attacks tend to result in larger individual ransom payments, often due to the urgenc
