Over the past year, a ransomware group known as Akira has infiltrated the systems of more than 250 organizations and made an estimated $42 million in profit, according to the world's leading cybersecurity agencies.
Investigations conducted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that Akira ransomware has been targeting businesses and critical infrastructure in North America, Europe and Australia since March 2023. It was initially targeted at Windows systems, but the FBI recently discovered a Linux version called Linux Akira.