{"id":241004,"date":"2026-05-07T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/businesses-hide-vast-majority-of-ransomware-attacks-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:35:07","slug":"businesses-hide-vast-majority-of-ransomware-attacks-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/businesses-hide-vast-majority-of-ransomware-attacks-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses hide vast majority of ransomware attacks, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-undisclosed-attacks-blackfog\/819595\/\">Businesses hide vast majority of ransomware attacks, report finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-undisclosed-attacks-blackfog\/819595\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-undisclosed-attacks-blackfog\/819595\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 11:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Dive Brief:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Companies around the world have been keeping the vast majority of ransomware attacks secret, according to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>a new report from the security firm BlackFog<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>The number of undisclosed attacks in the first quarter of 2026 was almost 10 times as large as the number of disclosed attacks, according to the report published Wednesday.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>BlackFog\u2019s report, based on information from dark-web leak sites, also includes data on the most targeted sectors and new tools that have emerged in the cybercrime ecosystem.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Dive Insight:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>BlackFog\u2019s threat intelligence team identified 264 publicly disclosed ransomware attacks in the first three months of 2026, but it also identified 2,160 undisclosed attacks. While the number of disclosed attacks represented a 15% year-over-year decrease, the number of undisclosed attacks ticked up slightly from Q1 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The U.S. was by far hackers\u2019 dominant target, with U.S. organizations accounting for half of all undisclosed attacks (1,070) and 61% of all disclosed attacks.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Qilin ransomware gang was the most active group in both segments, accounting for 16% of undisclosed attacks and 8% of disclosed attacks. But the second- and third-most active groups differed between segments. A relatively new group called <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Gentlemen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span> accounted for the second-most undisclosed attacks, followed by Akira, while ShinyHunters accounted for the second-most disclosed attacks, followed by INC.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Manufacturing was the most targeted sector among undisclosed attacks, accounting for more than one-fifth of all such incidents, while healthcare was the most commonly targeted sector among disclosed attacks, accounting for 27% of those incidents. Among disclosed attacks, government organizations (12%) and information technology companies (11%) were the next most targeted.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Virtually all (96%) disclosed attacks involved data exfiltration, BlackFog said, highlighting attackers\u2019 focus on data theft as a&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-undisclosed-attacks-blackfog\/819595\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses hide vast majority of ransomware attacks, report finds https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-undisclosed-attacks-blackfog\/819595\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-07 11:33:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/7eClIEpkaqdDq-BCzSLXICE27sGjrfOYZFN7uyEmnlo\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0xMzk5OTgwMDQ2LmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-241004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241008,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241004\/revisions\/241008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}