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Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn’t calling the CEO \u2013 it’s targeting the 46-year-old IT manager.<\/p>\n

That’s according to Zscaler<\/a>, whose ThreatLabz researchers tracked 351 victims across 334 organizations caught up in a single ransomware campaign over the course of a month.<\/p>\n

The data suggests today’s ransomware crews have become oddly specific about their preferred victim profile: nearly two-thirds of victims held manager-level titles or above, the average victim was a 46-year-old Gen Xer, and three-quarters worked in accounting and finance, sales, operations, HR, or marketing. Half worked in the industrial or IT sectors.<\/p>\n

Rather than blasting the same extortion email across an organization, attackers are doing their homework first. Zscaler says they combine information from compromised systems with publicly available data to map reporting lines and identify the employees most likely to influence a company’s response.<\/p>\n

“The ransomware landscape has shifted from indiscriminate attacks to highly targeted extortion campaigns,” the security outfit wrote. “Rather than targeting executives directly, attackers are increasingly focusing on managers and other key personnel with the authority or influence to accelerate payment decisions.”<\/p>\n

That shift reflects what Zscaler calls “business privilege” rather than technical privilege. Security teams have traditionally focused on privileged users with administrator rights. Attackers, meanwhile, are after employees whose day jobs give them access to invoices, payment approvals, budgets, supplier contracts, customer accounts, HR records, or other sensitive business processes.<\/p>\n

“The value of a compromised managerial account lies in the breadth of business access associated with the position,” the researchers wrote. “Managers may approve payments, oversee budgets and vendors, review contracts, access sensitive records, or coordinate work across business units.”<\/p>\n

The Gen X skew is probably no coincidence either. Zscaler says many workers in their forties and fifties have reached established management positions, giving attackers access to valuable systems, sensitive information, and people with decision-making authority without needing to compromise the executive suite.<\/p>\n

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It also found more than a dozen organizations said multiple employees were  compromised during the campaign, suggesting attackers weren’t content with a single foothold once inside a network. Instead, they appeared to work their way through different business functions to increase the chances of reaching valuable data and the people capable of influencing a ransom payment.<\/p>\n

The wider report points to a ransomware ecosystem that is becoming increasingly focused on extortion rather than encryption alone. Zscaler said ransomware attempts blocked across its cloud platform increased 146 percent over the past year, while public extortion cases rose 70 percent and the volume of data stolen from victims climbed 92 percent.<\/p>\n

By the time the ransom note lands, the crooks may already know who approves invoices, who signs contracts, who runs HR, and who reports to whom. The encryption is just the bit that victims notice. \u00ae<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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