Novel Technique to Detect Cloud Threat Actor Operations

Unit 42 regularly monitors the cyberthreat landscape, including trends in extortion and ransomware. Ransomware actors continue to evolve to increase the effectiveness of their attacks and the likelihood that organizations will pay what is demanded. In our 2025 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report, we found that 86% of incidents involved business disruption, spanning operational downtime, reputational damage or both....