The year the tide turned on ransomware

The year the tide turned on ransomware

2 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/30/the-year-the-tide-turned-on-ransomware/

This year was rife with ransomware. 2021 witnessed the attack on IT software company Kaseya that knocked 1,500 organizations offline, the CD Projekt Red hack that saw threat actors make off with source code for games including Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, and several high-profile attacks targeting big-name tech companies, from Olympus to FujitsuĀ and Panasonic.

It was also the year that hackers seized global attention by targeting critical infrastructure, hacking American oil pipeline system Colonial Pipeline, meat-processing giant JBS, and Iowa New Cooperative, an alliance of farmers that sells corn and soy, to name just a few.