{"id":33334,"date":"2020-04-29T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=33334"},"modified":"2020-04-29T04:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:45:00","slug":"ransomware-is-now-the-biggest-online-menace-you-need-to-worry-about-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/ransomware-is-now-the-biggest-online-menace-you-need-to-worry-about-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware is now the biggest online menace you need to worry about – here’s why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By\u00a0Danny Palmer\u00a0<\/a>– Ransomware<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Analysis of more than a trillion security events over the past year and hundreds of breach investigations by researchers at cybersecurity company Trustwave<\/a> found that ransomware attacks<\/a> have become the most common security incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost one in five \u2013 18% \u2013 of incidents throughout 2019\u00a0involved ransomware <\/strong>attacks<\/a>, where organisations found part or all of their environment compromised by\u00a0network encrypting malware<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and then faced a financial demand from hackers to regain access to the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of ransomware <\/strong>incidents quadrupled when compared with the previous year and it now means that ransomware<\/strong> 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. Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Danny Palmer\u00a0– 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 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-33334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76711,"url":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/cisas-pre-ransomware-notifications-help-organizations-stop-attacks-before-damage-occurs\/","url_meta":{"origin":33334,"position":0},"title":"CISA’s Pre-Ransomware Notifications Help Organizations Stop Attacks Before Damage Occurs","author":"Rick Backus","date":"April 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Clayton Romans - Over the past several years, ransomware attacks have caused extraordinary harm to American organizations: schools forced to close, hospitals required to divert patients, companies across all sectors facing operational disruption and expending untold sums on mitigation and recovery. 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