Cybercriminals ‘increasingly relying upon ransomware’

[Mihir :-)]

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http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/04/29/cybercriminals-increasingly-relying-upon-ransomware/

Ransomware is being increasingly relied upon in cyberattacks, according to Verizon’s latest Data Breach Investigations Report.

Over the last 12 months, there has been a 16% increase in ransomware attacks, the authors of paper stated.

This was touched upon recently by ESET’s Ondrej Kubovič in an article for WeLiveSecurity.

He said how this type of attack is a highly topical subject because of the types of organizations being targeted – for examples, hospitals – and because of how prevalent ransomware has become.

The report also revealed that 89% of all attacks “involve financial or espionage motivations”, with the former a clear catalyst.

Interestingly, the study noted how phishing is a growing concern, as it’s evident that a lot of people are not familiar with this tactic.

For example, Verizon found that 30% of phishing messages were opened in 2015, which is up by a massive 23% from 2014.

Phishing has been used by cybercriminals for years to access personal information. It can manifest itself as an email, text message or even a website.

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[DJ Panda]

Keeping software up to date, good anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-exploit, and anti-ransomeware are great to have plus a little common sense.

 

[Mihir :-)]

And BACKUP is must.

 

[Vipersd]

Don't forget the most important tool, The Brain of the computer user, more than 85 percent of all infections could be prevented if the user doesn't click on every link out there on the Internet as easily as they are doing now.

Most infections are acquired because of the user negligence of the simple behavior rules. If something sounds to good to be true it is most definitely malware.