Prevent, hunt, and disrupt ransomware attacks to stop a breach becoming a crisis.
Ransomware and data extortion attacks present a critical threat to your organization. Hard to recover from, they cause lasting damage to your reputation and bottom line. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report notes that ransomware attacks rose by a concerning 37% since 2024 and are now present in 44% of breaches. Ransomware actors seek access to your data using whatever means necessary, from compromised credentials to third-party breaches, and weaponized vulnerabilities.
You can significantly reduce these risks by adapting your security controls to the evolving threat landscape using Intel 471’s unmatched insights into top-tier ransomware actors, third-party breaches, and threat hunting precursors to ransomware deployment. Vigilant monitoring by Intel 471’s dedicated team of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) experts across the globe helps your team stay ahead of ransomware threats and proactively hunt for precursors to ransomware behaviors inside your environment.
The ransomware threat landscape is dynamic. But navigate our unified cyberthreat intelligence platform to access our holistic CTI solutions to proactively mitigate ransomware threats and the exposures threat actors use to access your data.
Intel 471 closely tracks top-tier threat groups and actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to give your security team operationalized intelligence to better anticipate, detect, and prevent ransomware threats. We provide early insights into when ransomware threat actors offer network access, weaponize vulnerabilities, and sell compromised credentials.
Prioritize patching using curated lists of vulnerabilities that our CTI analysts believe will likely be exploited in the future or have been discussed by ransomware affiliates in closed forums. Apply in-depth insights into the TTPs of top malware threats, such as infostealer malware, that increasingly support credential-based attacks to deploy ransomware. Business leaders also gain a concise global overview of geopolitical events that impact digital and operational risk with Intel 471’s Cyber Geopolitical Intelligence solutions.
Intel 471 also maps critical CTI to exposed assets discovered within the external attack surface of your organization and monitored third parties. As a result, you can effectively prioritize your security efforts to secure weak points against ransomwares leveraging them for initial access.
Ransomware actors routinely use Living off The Land (LOTL) methods to hide within trusted system processes and remote management tools. These tactics are hard to automatically detect, but with Intel 471’s intelligence-driven hunt queries and tools, your team can rapidly identify and neutralize high-risk ransomware precursors and close blind spots. Proactive threat hunting also helps prevent a breach becoming a crisis.
Credential-based attacks are the main tactic for breaching victim systems and cloud environments. Enterprise devices accounted for 30% of compromised systems in information stealer logs, with 46% of these being non-managed BYOD devices, according to Verizon’s 2025 data breach investigations report.
Delivered through our unified cyber threat intelligence platform, Intel 471 monitors key methods that ransomware actors use to gain access to networks
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While cyber threat intelligence, breach monitoring, and threat hunting are essential components in defending against ransomware attacks, there are also other strategies that organizations can implement to further strengthen their defenses. From Intel 471, these can include:
Know where to focus your resources. With unmatched CTI sourcing and unique datasets from Intel 471, you can monitor in real-time data breaches, assets exposed on data leak blogs, compromised credentials sold in information stealer logs, vulnerability exploits sold, discussions in underground marketplaces, communities, and messaging channels.
Adapt controls to evolving threats. It’s important to know when threat actors form new affiliations with RaaS operators. Track RaaS operator rebranding, and the evolution of threat actor capabilities, methodologies, and targeting.
Understand ransomware market trends, correlations between initial access brokers (IAB) and ransomware activity, the rate of new threat actors to the ransomware market. Intel 471 monitors over 300 malware families to understand trends in infostealers and credential-based ransomware attacks.
Proactively mitigate exposures with insights into vulnerabilities and CVEs that ransomware threats are most likely to target. Our Vulnerability Intelligence Dashboard helps you prioritize vulnerability remediation based on risk, observed discussions about CVEs, and the availability of proof-of-concept exploit code, and active exploitation. View a live feed of IOCs, malware artifacts, and command-and-control intelligence, along with CVE mapping to ransomware and malware campaigns.
Engage directly with Intel 471 intelligence collection analysts and managers covering ransomware threats to your organization, industry, and region. Leverage direct support developing Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs) to refine collections and facilitate requests for custom research (RFIs), collection, and reporting.
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