We’ve had a lot to say about ransomware over the last few months. We’ve looked at the relationship between ransomware and malvertising, discussed how ransomware is dominating the threat landscape, and talked about how to protect your business from this threat.
We’re taking a hard look at ransomware for good reason: the return on investment for cybercriminals yields tremendous profit for little effort, and they’ve been ramping up efforts to target businesses over the last year.
And now we have data to demonstrate how that increased effort has affected businesses around the world. A couple months ago, we sponsored a report conducted by Osterman Research on the global impact of ransomware. We’ve compiled the most compelling pieces of that data into an infographic. The results speak for themselves.
Click here for the full PDF version.
jezus christ, 40% paid? how? with bitcoin? How are they so tech savvy?
96% are not confident? wtf?
Usually with bitcoin. As for the 96%, a lot of it has to do with the simple fact that employees will invariably use business computing assets for personal tasks, and it is difficult if not impossible to get those employees to fully consider the potential impact of the accidental click on that all-too-tempting piece of click bait.
With the more advanced ransomware variants you get a full “user guide” how to acquire and transfer the bitcoins. It does not require any rocket science and if you are desperate enough to pay, you will find a way.
Malwarebytes kept me from going to a page infected by ransomware just a few months ago. I’m also running Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit.