Ransomware gangs are exfiltrating more data because it’s helping force more victims to pay. 22% of all ransomware cases involve data exfiltration, based on thousands of cases investigated by ransomware incident response firm Coveware in the second quarter of this year. Some organizations have been putting in place viable defenses against ransomware, including frequently backing up all systems, and storing those backups offline. The Maze gang began exfilting data before crypto-locking systems, then using the threat of data leaking to try and force more.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/99-ransomware-problems-decryptor-aint-one-p-2936