Most common ‘sources’ of ransomware attacks in 2022 listed

Ransomware attacks have seen an upward spiral and a report claimed that a majority of ransomware attacks in 2022 started with exploitation of public-facing applications. Data from compromised user accounts and malicious emails were the other two common sources of these cyberattacks.

According to Kaspersky Incident Response Analyst Report, “The nature of cyber incidents”, almost 43% of ransomware attacks investigated by Kaspersky experts in 2022 started with public facing applications’ exploitation.

Public facing applications are the ones that the public can access. These include web applications, mobile apps and VPN gateways.