Rogues gallery: 15 worst ransomware groups active today

Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) models, double extortion tactics, and increasing adoption of AI characterize the evolving ransomware threat landscape.

Law enforcement takedowns of groups such as LockBit have contributed to making the ransomware marketplace more fragmented, with emergent players attempting to muscle in on the action.

Attackers range from nation-state actors to RaaS operations, lone operators, and data theft extortion groups. Over recent years, financially motivated ransomware groups have adopted the stealth, evasion, and living-off-the-land techniques previously reserved for sophisticated espionage operations.

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