What Google learned after analyzing 80M ransomware samples: 5 things to know

Becker's Healthcare October 13, 2021
Hannah Mitchell

There were more than a hundred active ransomware groups active in 2020, according to an October report by Google Cloud’s Virus Total.

For the report, researchers analyzed more than 80 million potential ransomware-related samples submitted over a year and a half. There were 140 countries that submitted samples.

Five things to know:

1. At least 130 ransomware groups were active in 2020, according to an Oct. 13 Google news release. There were peaks of attacks in the first two quarters of 2020 and during July 2021.
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