By Jai Vijayan – The surge in ransomware attacks on cities, municipalities, schools, and healthcare organizations this year is just a foretaste of what is likely come in 2020.

Threat actors have sensed a very real opportunity to make big returns attacking enterprise organizations using ransomware and are refining their tools and techniques to increase their chances for success, say worried security experts.

Some recent developments include growing collaboration between threat groups on ransomware campaigns; the use of more sophisticated evasion mechanisms; elaborate multi-phase attacks involving reconnaissance and network scoping; and human-guided automated attack techniques.

IT and security groups that are already under pressure to respond will be challenged even more by the growing sophistication of the ransomware threat, experts note. While municipal governments, schools, and other perceived “soft” targets will continue to bear the brunt of the attacks, no organization will really be safe. Read On: