According to RU companies, this year, the “prices” of attackers for decrypting information and refusing to release it to free access have significantly fallen in price.
Hackers have reduced the cost of their services
According to Positive Technologies analyst Fedor Chunizhekov, in the second quarter of 2022, the median ransom of encrypted or stolen data was about $36,000, which is 51% less than at the end of 2021. And according to statistics from the startup Coalition, in the first half of this year, the “average check” presented to the victim by attackers reached $896,000, which is about a third less than at the end of last year.
According to Vladimir Dryukov, director of the Solar JSOC Cyberattack Counteraction Center at RTK-Solar, prices for the corresponding software on the dark web have fallen 10-12 times. Market participants partly attribute this to the tightening of regulatory requirements for business response to incidents, as well as the relatively low cost of investigation services.
However, according to experts, there are still hackers in Russia who keep their requests at the same level. As an example, the head of the Group-IB computer forensics laboratory, Oleg Skulkin, cited the OldGremlin group to journalists. He stated that the attackers are now “targeting” large enterprises such as banks, logistics, industrial and insurance organizations, as well as retailers and IT companies. The specialist estimates their “price” for restoring access to data at up to 1 billion rubles
