Ransomware Complaints Doubled in 2015

[Alkajak]

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The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that during 2015, its officers received a record number of complaints from users infected with ransomware.

According to the IC3's 2015 Internet Crime Report, the Bureau saw 2,453 ransomware complaints in 2015, a thousand more than 2014's total of 1,402. IC3 officials estimate that these infections caused damages of well over $1.6 million to the affected parties.

The report only includes data from 2015, when even if ransomware was a dangerous threat, it never reached the levels it attained during the first few months of 2016.

Full Article: FBI: Ransomware Complaints Doubled in 2015

 

[jamescv7]

No surprise, Ransomware was introduced likely 2015 which been draws a lot of attention to the cybersecurity.

As that threat can turn out into mind games for attempting to retrieve the encrypted files as possible.