The report discusses the growing problem of ransomware attacks on businesses and the need for a new approach to prevent them. The cost of cybercrime to businesses in the US in 2021 was nearly $7 billion, with ransomware a major contributor. Despite 86% of businesses increasing their security budgets to fight these attacks, 90% of businesses were affected by ransomware in the last 12 months. The report highlights common blind spots in today's malware infection response and provides a more complete approach to post-infection remediation. The report also provides examples of post-infection remediation with SpyCloud and how it can help. The report concludes that ransomware is a malware problem and that bad actors use information or access which was gathered through malware infections as the basis for ransomware attacks.