United States of America
United States of America Infostealer Threat Report — March 2026
03/01/2026 – 03/31/2026
Threat summary
Key figures from the month's threat activity.
Overview
Most common malware family: VIDAR (28.1% of infections). Sector with the most employee account leaks: Education. Leaked accounts fell by 22.6% compared with the previous month.
Ransomware victims in United States of America28,284
infected devices · from 10 families
Report periodMar 1, 2026 - Mar 31, 2026
Risk score
39-19vs previous month
- Infected devices
- 28,284
- Android devices
- 10,407
- Domains
- 126,786
- Employee accounts
- 4,490
- Customer accounts
- 1,210,985
- Families
- 10
Top 10 malware families
infections- 1VIDAR7,940
- 2PUREV44,396
- 3REDLINE4,280
- 4STEALC3,587
- 5ARKEI2,337
- 6LUMMAC756
- 7MACSYNC STEALER637
- 8SHAPESHIFTER367
- 9KATZ STEALER223
- 10ELYSIUM STEALER142
The full list is in the PDF reportDownload report
Top 10 antivirus
infected devices- 1Windows Defender7,134
- 2Reason Cybersecurity14
- 3Malwarebytes8
Breakdown of leaks
Breakdown by sector, file type and critical system.
Employee accounts by sector
organizationsrecordsRansomware victimsemployee accounts- 1Education374organizations62.1Krecords18Ransomware victims1,178employee accounts
- 2Technology107organizations322.6Krecords57Ransomware victims383employee accounts
- 3Telecommunications25organizations16.2Krecords–Ransomware victims138employee accounts
- 4Manufacturing and industry16organizations7.5Krecords65Ransomware victims88employee accounts
- 5Government36organizations42.6Krecords15Ransomware victims83employee accounts
- 6Retail and e-commerce30organizations93.3Krecords28Ransomware victims75employee accounts
- 7Gaming and betting6organizations61.7Krecords–Ransomware victims57employee accounts
- 8Logistics and transport6organizations8.2Krecords11Ransomware victims48employee accounts
- 9Travel and hospitality10organizations19.2Krecords–Ransomware victims39employee accounts
- 10Healthcare23organizations13.9Krecords37Ransomware victims38employee accounts
The full list is in the PDF reportDownload report
Report contents
Sections and pages of the full report.
Contents
Download the reportPreparing contents
Other reports
From the Essential plan
Infostealer Detection
See your firm's attack surface on one screen: how many findings, at which severity, on which domain.