Ransomware attacks may be declining in number but almost every other metric related to the threat is trending upward. Victims paid more ransom money, experienced greater downtime, and took longer to recover from an attack than ever before. Much of these trends were driven by an increase in ransomware types such as Ryuk, Bitpayment, and Iencrypted, that were used in customized, targeted attacks on large enterprises, Coveware said. Attackers are getting more hands-on, staging manual attacks against targeted organizations using compromised credentials.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/6-takeaways-from-ransomware-attacks-in-q1