This Cybereason white paper examines RansomOps—complex, stealthy ransomware operations that use targeted, multi-stage attacks. Enabled by Ransomware-as-a-Service and generative AI, these operations involve weeks of undetected activity including phishing, RDP exploitation, credential theft, and lateral movement before payload delivery. Data exfiltration and double extortion are common. The paper warns that paying ransoms doesn’t guarantee data recovery and often leads to repeat attacks. It promotes early detection, behavioral analytics, and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) tools to disrupt attackers before encryption occurs.

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