Ransomware Data Points
In the next five days I will walk through some basics of Ransomware. This post lists out some data points from Kaspersky (with a few exceptions). This should scare you.
If you're not at least alarmed, then you definately need to read the next few posts!
Ransomeware Data Points:
Statistics from Kaspersky Labs (Security software company)
2016 gave us:
758,044,650 attacks launched from online resources located all over the world
62 new ransomware families
(most malware will have an original, and several versions. Those together are called a family as they are all related)
11 fold increase in modifications to various malware from Q1 to Q3.
1 in 5 SMBs that were infected AND paid the ransom, never got their data back.
1 in 5 businesses worldwide suffered and IT security incident as a result of a ransomware attack.
42% of SMBs were hit with ransomware from Oct 2105 to Oct 2016
32% paid the ransom
67% of those affected lost part or all of their corporate data. 1 in 4 spent several weeks to restore access
97% of malware is unique to a specific endpoint, rednering signature-based security virtually useless
98% of Microsoft Office- targeted threats use macros (Microsoft, 2016)
600%+ incrase in attachement-based vs URL deliverd malware attacks from mid 2015 to 2015 (Proofpoint, 2015)
6000% increase in ransomware from 2015 to 2016 (IBM, 2016)
Who got hit, by sector?
Education – 23% (23% of the Education sector was hit by Ransomware)
IT /Telcom – 22%
Entertainment/Media – 21%
Financial Services - 21%
Construction - 19%
Government/Public Sector/Defense – 18%
Manufacturing – 18%
Transport – 17%
Healthcare – 16%
Retail/Wholesale/Leisure – 16%
2016-12-15
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