{"id":123511,"date":"2021-06-23T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/?p=123511"},"modified":"2024-02-18T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:19:12","slug":"mcafee-labs-report-highlights-ransomware-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/mcafee-labs-report-highlights-ransomware-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee Labs Report Highlights Ransomware Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team today published the McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this edition we introduce additional context into the biggest stories dominating the year thus far including recent ransomware attacks. While the topic itself is not new, there is no question that the threat is now truly mainstream.<\/p>\n

This Threats Report provides a deep dive into ransomware, in particular DarkSide<\/a>, which resulted in an agenda item in talks between U.S. President Biden and Russian President Putin. While we have no intention of detailing the political landscape, we certainly do have to acknowledge that this is a threat disrupting our critical services. Furthermore, adversaries are supported within an environment that make digital investigations challenging with legal barriers that make the gathering of digital evidence almost impossible from certain geographies.<\/p>\n

That being said, we can assure the reader that all of the recent campaigns are incorporated into our products, and of course can be tracked within our MVISION Insights<\/a> preview dashboard.<\/p>\n

This dashboard shows that \u2013 beyond the headlines \u2013 many more countries have experienced such attacks. What it will not show is that victims are paying the ransoms, and criminals are introducing more Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) schemes as a result. With the five-year anniversary of the launch of the No More Ransom<\/a> initiative now upon us it\u2019s fair to say that we need more global initiatives to help combat this threat.<\/p>\n

Q1 2021 Threat Findings<\/strong><\/h2>\n

McAfee Labs threat research during the first quarter of 2021 include:<\/p>\n