Over half (53%) of businesses in the region did not have a comprehensive ransomware defense strategy in place. In fact, 69% of respondents in Asia Pacific suffered at least one ransomware attack in the past 12 months.
As such, the majority of adversaries are looking to exploit key vulnerabilities within organizations, and not really targeting a specific region.ĭata from the CrowdStrike 2021 Global Security Attitude Survey did find that ransomware attacks are continuing to prove effective, with ransomware payments costing APAC organizations an average of US$2.35 million per attack, the highest out of all of the regions surveyed. When looking at the scale of threats in Asia vs the rest of the world, it’s worth noting that most businesses engage with a complex web of technology vendors and partners who are literally based all over the world. There are increasing threats to cloud environments as more businesses seek hybrid work environments necessitating a shift to the cloud. using ransomware to encrypt target networks and then threatening to leak victim information via adversary-controlled “dedicated leak sites”. From this, we can see that attacks are increasing but they are also becoming a lot more sophisticated in order to evade legacy security solutions such as signature-based antivirus.Īdversaries are also finding more ways to obtain ransom payments through things like lock and leak operations., i.e.
We also saw a 45% increase in interactive intrusions, an 82% increase in ransomware-related data leaks and observed that 62% of attacks were malware free. Mark Goudie, Director of Services, APJ at CrowdStrike
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