https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-is-now-the-biggest-online-menace-you-need-to-worry-about/
By Danny Palmer
Security
ZDNet
April 22, 2020
Ransomware attacks have become more commonplace than payment card theft
incidents for the first time, as cyber criminals alter how they go about their
malicious operations in an effort to gain the biggest financial reward for the
least amount of effort.
Analysis of more than a trillion security events over the past year and
hundreds of breach investigations by researchers at cybersecurity company
Trustwave found that ransomware attacks have become the most common security
incident.
Almost one in five – 18% – of incidents throughout 2019 involved ransomware
attacks, where organisations found part or all of their environment compromised
by network encrypting malware – and then faced a financial demand from hackers
to regain access to the data.
The number of ransomware incidents quadrupled when compared with the previous
year and it now means that ransomware attacks are more common that payment card
and financial data breaches for the first time. Incidents involving stolen bank
account details and credit card information accounted for 17% of incidents
during 2019.
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