New research finds that lateral movement is a clear sign of ransomware attack

In a research covering 37 countries and 36 different ransomware groups, Barracuda’s annual Threat Spotlight shows that nearly 44% of ransomware attacks were spotted during lateral movement. Barracuda, a leading provider of cloud security solutions, found that 25% of incidents were detected when the attackers wrote or edited files and 14% when their behaviour didn’t align with known activity patterns.