Today, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a blog highlighting the recent success of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC)’s pre-ransomware notification initiative and the impact it’s already having on reducing harm from ransomware attacks.

As part of CISA’s pre-ransomware notification program, organizations can receive early warning and potentially evict threat actors before they can encrypt and hold critical data and systems for ransom. Using this capability, CISA has notified more than 60 entities of early-stage ransomware intrusions since January 2023, including critical infrastructure organizations in the water and wastewater systems sector. The pre-ransomware notification was developed with the help of the cybersecurity research community and through CISA’s relationships with infrastructure providers and cyber threat intelligence companies. For more information, visit #StopRansomware. To report early-stage ransomware activity, visit Report Ransomware. Read more at CISA.