Brazil’s Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – was impacted by a REvil ransomware attack in April that encrypted employee’s files and forced the courts to shut down their network.Brazilian National Treasury – it was hit with a ransomware attack on August 17th but no damage has been done to the structuring systems of the agency.Bose Corporation (Bose) – Bose has confirmed that it suffered a ransomware attack and a data breach on 7 March 2021.Bakker Logistiek – in April, Bakker Logistiek was the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted their devices, therefore, disrupting food transportation and fulfillment operations.AXA – the French company revealed that one of its Asian subsidiaries was hit by an Avaddon ransomware attack in May, after dropping support for ransom payments.The company experienced significant disruption to its business operations, the website has been unavailable for a while and payment processing was impacted ATFS – the attack took place in February and it was organized by Cuba ransomware gang.The attackers demanded Asteelflash to pay a whopping $24 million ransom after it was initially set to $12 million in Monero crypto Asteelflash – the company detected the REvil / Sodinokibi ransomware at the end of March.
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ADATA – the organization was hit by the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang last month, which led to the takedown of affected systems offline for the containment of the infection.The threat actors demanded a $50,000,000 ransom Acer – the organization became a victim of a REvil ransomware attack back in March.Accenture – noticed the LockBit ransomware attack on its systems on July 30 but the incident was immediately contained.Below You Can Find a List of Private and Public Companies Affected by Ransomware Attacks in 2021: It usually happens because they are afraid of the severe social repercussions.Īccording to a study conducted by Cloudwards, in 2021, 37% of all businesses and organizations were hit by ransomware and out of all, 32% paid the ransom but recovered only 65% of their data.Ī few months ago, we also published an article about a study showing that in the first five months of 2021 more than 290 companies have become victims of six ransomware groups, but let’s see what the current situation is. What motivates the ransomware actors to become even more creative in their attacks and ask for tens of millions of dollars payments is the fact that there are companies that agree to pay the ransom and not disclose the attack. All over the world, threat actors take advantage of security vulnerabilities and encrypt data belonging to all sorts of organizations: from private businesses to healthcare facilities and governments. The increasing frequency and size of ransomware attacks are becoming a huge concern for thousands of organizations globally.
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