Cyber Protection Operation Centers Report: Ransomware dominates threat landscape

Introduction and summary

Acronis was the first company to implement complete integrated cyber protection to protect all data, applications and systems. Cyber protection requires the researching and monitoring of threats, as well as abiding by the five vectors of safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity and security, or SAPAS. As part of the strategy, we’ve established four Cyber Protection Operation Centers (CPOCs) around the world to monitor and research cyberthreats 24/7.

We’ve also upgraded our current flagship products: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, a cloud solution added into the Acronis Cyber Cloud platform, and Acronis Cyber Protect 15, an on-premises solution. Prior to these releases, Acronis had been a leader in the data protection market with its innovative Acronis Active Protection antiransomware technology, which evolved over time to demonstrate Acronis’ unique expertise at stopping threats aimed at data. However, it’s important to note that the artificial intelligence (AI)- and behavior-based detection technologies that Acronis first developed in 2016 were expanded to address all forms of malware and other potential threats.

This report covers the threat landscape, as encountered by our sensors and analysts, during the first half of 2022.

General malware data presented in the report is gathered from January–June of this year and reflects threats targeting endpoints that we detected in these six months.

This report represents a global outlook and is based on over 700,000 unique endpoints distributed around the world. Most of the statistics discussed focus on threats for Windows operating systems, as they are much more prevalent compared to macOS and Linux. We will see how this situation develops and may include data on macOS and Linux threats in the next report.