ADDRESSING RANSOMWARE TAKES MORE THAN JUST POINT SOLUTIONS
Ransomware attacks present a critical threat to organizations, and ransomware actors seek access to your data using whatever means necessary. A strategic combination of intelligence disciplines, breach monitoring, and threat hunting can significantly reduce these risks. 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 ransomware behaviors inside your environment.
Effective ransomware disruption takes more than just a single solution or a point-in-time mitigation. It’s constant. Intel 471’s Cyber Exposure Intelligence regularly evaluates your organization’s overall security posture, highlighting areas of risk and prioritizing defenses to strengthen protection. Vulnerability Intelligence can identify weak points in systems and software, enabling proactive remediation before bad actors exploit them. Our Adversary Intelligence provides regular insights into the tactics and motives of attackers, helping your team predict and defend against specific threats. Malware Intelligence analyzes malicious software, offering details on how ransomware operates and how to neutralize it. Other cyber threat intelligence and solutions from Intel 471, including Fraud, Credential, and Geopolitical Risk and regular breach monitoring can also play critical roles in addressing ransomware. Cyber Threat Hunting can then actively search for signs of potential or ongoing attacks, enabling swift and decisive action to counter ransomware at its earliest stages.
Together, these interconnected intelligence, breach monitoring, and hunting efforts create a constant robust defense that minimizes the likelihood and impact of ransomware attacks.
RANSOMWARE INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTION
Gain instant access to leaked files on data leak blogs and alerts on third-party breaches. Monitor when ransomware threat actors offer network access, weaponize vulnerabilities, and sell compromised credentials. Intel 471 closely tracks top-tier threat groups and individual tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to give your security team actionable intelligence to better anticipate, detect, and prevent ransomware threats.
THREAT HUNTING PRECURSORS TO RANSOMWARE
Ransomware actors routinely use Living of 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.
STUDIO 471: The Evolution of Russian Cybercrime
Listen in as Intel 471’s Jeremy Kirk interviews Roman Sannikov to discuss how ransomware cybercriminals are shifting tactics as larger organizations strengthen their defenses.
INTEL 471 HELPS YOU PREVENT AND DISRUPT RANSOMWARE
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:
Situational Awareness
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.
Threat Actor Profiling
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.
Ransomware Market Trend Awareness
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.
Vulnerability and Malware Intelligence Integration
Proactively mitigate exposures with insights into vulnerabilities and CVEs that ransomware threats are most likely to target. The Intel 471 Vulnerability 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.
Don’t Do It Alone - Collections Management Engagement
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.
Learn more about the ransomware threat landscape in our recent Annual Threat Report
