The number of companies that had their information uploaded onto dedicated leak sites (DLS) between the second half of the financial year (H2) 2021 and the first half of the financial year (H1) 2022 was up 22%, year on year, to 2,886, which amounts to an average of eight companies having their data leaked online every day, says a recent report, Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2022/2023, by Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence division.
One of the driving factors of this trend is the ever-increasing impact of affiliate programs, also known as the Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) model. Over the past year, ransom demands from cybercriminals operating according to the RaaS framework have risen significantly.