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Ransomware Attacks Decline in 2024, But Threat Remains High with $734M in Ransom

Redazione RHC 09/12/2025

According to a recently released report by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) , global ransomware activity peaked in 2023, only to plummet in 2024. This decline is attributed to successive attacks on large-scale ransomware groups, including ALPHV (BlackCat) and LockBit, through collaborative international investigations. FinCEN analyzed thousands of reports under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) filed by financial institutions between January 2022 and December 2024, identifying 4,194 cases of ransomware and over $2.1 billion in ransoms. This figure is nearly equal to the total reported in the eight-year period from 2013 to 2021. $4.5 billion: The ransomware economy between 2013 and

AKIRA emergency report: the ransomware that is breaching Italy

RHC Dark Lab 22/06/2025

Spring 2025 will be remembered as a turning point in our country’s cyber chronicle. As bulletins and technical releases follow one another, one fact emerges glaringly: AKIRA has entered the Italian scene heavily. And it has done so without knocking on the door. In the report we publish today, the result of the joint work of our community and the DarkLab subgroup, which specializes in Cyber Threat Intelligence. Analysis with a technical but operational slant on the new offensive campaign of AKIRA, the ransomware-as-a-service that has made its bones abroad and now plays at home hitting large and medium-sized companies all along

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