Bernalillo County, New Mexico, started off 2022 the victim of a ransomware attack. Not a lot is known about the attack at the time of this writing, but it has all of the hallmarks of a ransom
Businesses are increasingly being targeted by ransomware attacks. The crippling nature of these attacks makes it necessary to take precautions now. Data impacted by a ransomware attack can be
Backups Don’t Ensure Safety In years past, a solid backup process offered a reliable sense of security, but today, they are as much a target as anything else. As our visual guide explains,
A new year, a new ransomware attack. Portugal’s largest media conglomerate got hit hard over the New Year’s holiday weekend, and is still offline as of this article’
2021 was the year that ransomware went viral, and not in a good way. Although ransomware is far from a new scourge, it became household news this year as extremely high-profile attacks
According to the US Justice Department, more than 4,000 ransomware attacks happen daily, on average, in the US alone. Most of them don’t make the news. Many attacks are quietly paid off
Ransomware attacks in 2021 continued to grow in not only frequency, but in cost, according to a new survey. CrowdStrike’s fourth annual Global Security Attitude Survey revealed that 66
There is no doubt about it: ransomware can be devastating. The average recovery cost is reaching nearly $2 million, more than double the amount from just a year ago, according to cybersecurit
To make a rational risk assessment about any scenario, you need to know what the possible outcomes are, and the consequences of each outcome. The alternative to proactive investment is reacti
