![]() However, more recently, a direct infection via USB devices by people who have physical access to machines is becoming increasingly common. Ransomware is typically deployed through phishing attacks – where employees of an organization are tricked into providing details or clicking a link that downloads the ransomware software (sometimes called malware) onto a computer. Alternatively, the software virus may threaten to publish the data publicly, leaving the organization liable to enormous fines. Ransomware typically involves infecting devices with a virus that locks files away behind unbreakable cryptography and threatens to destroy them unless a ransom is paid, usually in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency. Once again, we can largely blame this on the pandemic, and the growth in the amount of activity carried out online and in digital environments. And research by PwC suggests that 61% of technology executives expect this to increase in 2022. ![]() ![]() Research by Capgemini recently found two-thirds of businesses now believe AI is necessary to identifying and countering critical cybersecurity threats, and nearly three-quarters of businesses are using or testing AI for this purpose.Īccording to the UK National Cyber Security Centre, there were three times as many ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2021 as there were in the whole of 2019. ![]()
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