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   US becomes ransomware capital of the world as attacks rise by almost 150   
   percent   
      
   Date:   
   Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:29:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   There are now more ransomware attacks in the US than in the next 15 countries   
   combined.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   The US is now the ransomware capital of the world. The majority of the    
   attacks are targeting US organizations, and in the last year, the number of   
   attacks has dramatically spiked. These are the conclusions echoed in the 2025   
   Ransomware Report, published by cybersecurity experts Zscaler ThreatLabz.    
      
   Using proprietary data, as well as samples and information collected from the   
   wider internet, Zscalers researchers determined that 50% of all ransomware   
   attacks in the last year happened in the United States, significantly   
   outpacing Canada (5%) and the UK (4%).    
      
   Even when you combine all the attacks reported across the top 15    
   most-targeted countries, there are fewer than 3,671 that were reported in the   
   US.   
      
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   The number of attacks is also increasing. Year-on-year, it is up by 146% in   
   the US, with manufacturing (1,063), technology (922), and healthcare (672)   
   being the most-targeted industries, mostly for the potential for operational   
   disruption, the sensitive of the stolen data, and the risk of regulatory   
   pressure and reputational damage. Companies in the oil and gas sector saw a   
   staggering increase in ransomware attacks - 900% year-on-year.    
      
   Zscaler also said that ransomware actors are increasingly abandoning the   
   encryption part of the attack, and are focusing solely on data theft. In the   
   last year, 10 of the biggest ransomware groups exfiltrated 238 TB of data, up   
   92% from last years 123 TB.    
      
   Right now, the biggest names in the ransomware space are RansomHub (833   
   victims), Akira (520), and Clop (488), but the number of threat actors is    
   also rising. In the last year alone, the researchers identified 34 newly   
   active ransomware families, bringing the total number up to 425.    
      
   Ransomware flourishes in environments with fragmented security, limited   
   visibility, implicit trust, and outdated legacy architectures, Zscaler   
   stresses, urging businesses to mitigate these threats by adopting a   
   cloud-native, AI-driven, zero-trust architecture.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/us-becomes-ransomware-capital-of-the-wo   
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