As every year, Chainlysis Company has published its annual reports on the state of Kryptocrime in the last year. Despite calm in 2024, at the beginning of January, it estimated that it could only be a facade. Despite the potential increase in crypty flights, however, it would seem that the ransomware attack did not have as much as in the years.
- In 2024, chainlysis reported a 35 % decrease in ransom payments, indicating the development of ransomware victims.
- Ransomware has better resisted ransomware thanks to better information and increased international cooperation, often prefer decryption tools or recent backups.
Ransomware in 2024: victims no longer do black
5th February teams chains shared a detailed message about Development of ransomware in 2024. We remind you that ransomware is a malicious software to encrypt data from the computer system. Therefore, the user no longer has access to his data unless the ransom has been paid to the hacker to unlock this data.
In practice, hackers use fear generated by this encryption, especially in focus on sensitive data.
While the victims have so far tended to pay ransom, the situation seems to have evolved in 2024.
Thus noted the accommodation and 35 % drop in paymentsThe transition from a record from $ 1.25 billion in 2023 to approximately $ 813 million in 2024. Although one can think of a decline in hackers’ activity, the chain considers it to develop the behavior of the victim’s party.
In fact, society, the main victims of these attacks, look better informed. As a result, they are Less inclined notes settings in case of attack.
“Reports of specialized companies suggest that most customers decide not to pay at all, which means that the real difference is more important than the numbers below. »»
However, this is not the only factor that will take into account. According to the scarf, this decline is also explained by the rise measures And increased cooperation between the international authorities, especially between the FBI and the National Crime (NCA).
The victims no longer allow
In addition, the victims also understood that they had space for a maneuver in ransomware cases.
Therefore, they turn more often Decryption toolsAllows you to recover, even partially, data rather than bringing out the ransom. In many cases, victims can also restore their data through recent backups. Although it means creating a cross on part of the data.
He also understood that they were able to negotiate. As a result, ransom, which could have achieved astronomical data in the past, have decreased to a large extent as a result of these negotiations between the victims and hackers. Thus, the amounts paid by the victims were generally between 150 000 and $ 250,000,, regardless of initial requirements.
“In the end, they may decide that the decryption tool is their best choice and negotiate to reduce the final payment, but more often than not, reminding that food from recent advances is the fastest and profitable solution”
Fortunately, there is justice in this world. So it happens that hackers are admitted in their own game. Hacker siphoned the wallets of these fraudsters Web 3. Return of karma, which is always pleasant to observe.