Ransomware statistics for 2020: Year in summary

Gandalf_The_Grey

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Summary:

The total number of ransomware submissions increased by 12.39% between 2019 and 2020. Q1 saw a dramatic year-on-year increase of 95.17%, while the number of submissions in Q4 dropped by 29.56%. The biggest fluctuations in the number of submissions occurred in April (156.55%), February (137.17%) and March (101.64%).

Of the 587 ransomware variants submitted over the year, STOP/Djvu was by far the most common. There are more than 160 confirmed variants of STOP, which collectively accounted for 71.20% of all submissions in 2020. Some older strains of STOP can be decrypted with our free STOP decryption tools, but newer variants cannot be decrypted.

More than half of all submissions (52.60%) in 2020 came from just 10 countries. While ransomware is a truly global threat, the data indicates that Asia was perhaps the most commonly targeted region. With six nations in the top 10 (including transcontinental Turkey), Asia accounted for more than a third (35.70%) of all ransomware submissions in 2020. India had the most ransomware submissions in each quarter this year and was responsible for 14.40% of all submissions in 2020.
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Strange how this coincides with "real life." Viruses (COVID and malware/ransomware) mirroring one another.

I was surprised that Indonesia had such a large slice of the pie--over 15% with the US coming in at 3rd place. Must be a lower market share of Windows 10 usage? What else could be a contributing factor, also for India at #1?
 

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