Experts from the American company SonicWall noted that, against the background of the fall in the price of bitcoin, the number of attacks using ransomware has decreased significantly.

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In the first half of 2022, researchers counted 236 million ransomware infections. This is 23% less than the same period last year.

Speaking to The Block, SonicWall cited the price of bitcoin as an early indicator of the frequency of ransomware attacks. According to them, the increase in security standards in companies and the action of law enforcement officers in this direction also contributed to the decrease in the indicator.

According to the report, the number of ransomware incidents peaked in 2021. Later, the targets of the attackers were large companies such as JBS Foods and Colonial Pipeline, which had to pay the hackers large sums of bitcoin.

According to the researchers, attacks using stealth miners are increasingly targeting the financial sector.

“Crypto theft targeting the retail segment has grown by 63% since the start of the year. At the same time, the number of attacks on the financial sector increased by 269%.

Terry Grieg-King, VP of SonicWall, noted that attacks using stealth miners are sometimes quite difficult to detect. According to him, many users do not even suspect that the slowdown of their device is due to the actions of intruders.

Earlier, US authorities confiscated $500,000 paid to North Korea-linked ransomware operators.

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