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Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile
Q1–2025 Extortion Attack Group Guide
What's Inside?
Ransomware has evolved beyond being a tool for financial gain.
For adversarial nations, it serves as a low-cost, high-impact mechanism to disrupt targets while avoiding direct confrontation.
Recognizing and addressing this reality is a crucial step in protecting critical systems and ensuring national security in an era of increasingly complex threats.
The Halcyon team of ransomware experts has put together this extortion group power rankings guide as a quick reference for the extortion threat landscape based on data from throughout Q1-2025.
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Halcyon's ransomware prevention engine constantly examines each endpoint for ransomware attack precursors to stop it in real time. Additionally, our platform intercepts the encryption keys generated during an attack in order to automatically decrypt any impacted endpoints and protect the broader fleet. Never pay for a ransom or have to restore from backups again.
Supercharge Your Endpoint Controls
Modern endpoint controls are common targets for attackers to get around. Halcyon’s sidekick protection ensures your other investments in security are always communicating and never compromised.
Stop Double-Extortion & Data Loss
Ransomware attackers commonly siphon sensitive data off victim networks to hold for a second ransom, threatening to sell this data to the highest bidder or release it publicly. Halcyon's Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) automatically prevents this from happening.
Gain Board Approval, Alignment, & Confidence
Shifts in legality have turned cyber into a top board concern. With executive leadership on the hook for an effective cybersecurity program, security teams turn to Halcyon to provide a truly resilient anti-ransomware program.
Testimonials
Halcyon was partially deployed against previously unseen ransomware. The threat actor had disabled our AV and EDR, but failed to execute on endpoints running Halcyon. We saw the attackers pivot to unprotected machines, but Halcyon’s services and keyless decryption helped us recover critical data in less than 24 hours. 99% of our data was recovered in under 48 hours.
Enterprise - Manufacturing (Q2 2023)
After recovering from a ransomware incident, we installed Halcyon as an additional security measure on our endpoints. During deployment, Halcyon quickly identified and blocked a Sunburst backdoor that was missed by all of our other (new and old) controls we had put in place.
Enterprise - Retail Distribution (Q3 2023)
We were compromised by an active ransomware group while searching for an anti-ransomware product. Our IR firm and MSSP both forecasted a long recovery. We tried Halcyon’s services and keyless decryption in a PoV and were able to recover critical systems and data (90% of files and 95% of infrastructure) within hours. We now have Halcyon deployed across our entire environment.
Midsize - Construction (Q3 2023)