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Picus Labs has released a report that ranks MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
According to the report, ransomware encryption is on the decline.
Moving up the ranks is a malware that plays dead until it's ripe to strike.
In its annual Red Report, a body of research that analyzes real-world attacker techniques using large-scale attack simulation data, Picus Labs warns cybersecurity professionals that threat actors are rapidly shifting away from ransomware encryption to parasitic "sleeperware" extortion as their means to loot organizations for millions of dollars per attack.
Taking the adversary's perspective
Released today and now in its sixth year, the 278-page Red Report gets its name from Picus-organized cybersecurity exercises that take the perspective of the attacker's team, otherwise known as the "red team."
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