{"id":34410,"date":"2020-07-08T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=34410"},"modified":"2020-07-08T02:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:39:00","slug":"ransomware-has-a-new-and-very-valuable-hostage-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/ransomware-has-a-new-and-very-valuable-hostage-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Has A New And Very Valuable Hostage In Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bob Zukis<\/a> – Cybercriminals have figured out that fencing stolen data is a lot more work than just holding it hostage. It also doesn’t pay as well. Ransomware<\/strong> is a rapidly growing cyber threat, and attacks overall were\u00a0up 25% in Q1.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ransomware<\/strong> continues to proliferate as an effective cybersecurity threat because it works. It gets hackers paid.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average ransomware <\/strong>payment is up 33% from Q4 of 2019 to $111,605. But the real cost is the impact on business, such as lost revenue or employee productivity or the impact to public services. The average business downtime due to a ransomware <\/strong>attack is 15 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city of Florence, Alabama, was hit on June 5th<\/sup>\u00a0with a ransomware<\/strong> attack and hackers demanded $300,000, which city officials said\u00a0they’d likely pay to keep<\/a>\u00a0their citizens information off the internet.\u00a0 Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Zukis – Cybercriminals have figured out that fencing stolen data is a lot more work than just holding it hostage. It also doesn’t pay as well. Ransomware is a rapidly growing cyber threat, and attacks overall were\u00a0up 25% in Q1. Ransomware continues to proliferate as an effective cybersecurity threat because it works. It gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-34410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t