96 pc ransomware affected Indian firms engaged with law enforcement for help: Report
According to the cybersecurity firm Sophos, about 59 per cent of the organisations that did engage with law enforcement also reported finding the process easy.
According to the cybersecurity firm Sophos, about 59 per cent of the organisations that did engage with law enforcement also reported finding the process easy.
The report surveyed nearly 3,000 IT and security professionals in 18 countries across 37 industries.
The global ransomware attacks are at an all-time high, and the US is the primary target, a new report has said.
A deadly malware named Akira, which mostly targets Windows and Linux systems, is the biggest looming threat.
Information security company, CyberArk, on Sunday said that more than 91 per cent of the Indian organisations experienced ransomware attacks in 2022 while 55 per cent of the affected organisations reported paying up twice or more to allow recovery, signalling that they were likely victims of double extortion campaigns.
On a global scale, the survey also showed that when organisations paid a ransom to get their data decrypted, they ended up additionally doubling their recovery costs (US$750,000 in recovery costs versus US$375,000 for organisations that used backups to get data back).
The number of ransomware threats detected spiked to more than 1.2 million per month between the January-June period, a report has revealed.
It has become imperative to arm organizations with knowledge to extend their proactive defenses and ensure IoT devices have adequate segmentation from their critical IT and OT infrastructure.
On the mobile side, adware and fleeceware were among the top threats, according to global security company Avast
The administration has yet to attribute the latest major attack to Russians hackers
