{"id":44419,"date":"2020-11-30T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=44419"},"modified":"2020-11-30T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T08:10:00","slug":"how-ransomware-defense-is-evolving-with-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/30\/how-ransomware-defense-is-evolving-with-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ransomware Defense is Evolving With Ransomware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ransomware<\/strong> became deadly in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Healthcare facilities were attacked at an alarming rate, including one incident in Germany<\/a> that lead to a patient death when an attack locked critical systems and a woman needing critical care was turned away. She died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ransomware <\/strong>is now one of the fastest-growing threats in cybersecurity, with damages predicted to cost\u00a0$20 billion globally by 2021, up from $354 mill<\/a>ion in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you work in infosec, you probably knew that. We’re not here to tell you ransomware is a problem. But we are here to examine what security teams are doing to defend against it, and what techniques are emerging as best bets to mitigate ransomware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankly, the current landscape isn’t great, according to Azeem Aleem of technology services firm NTT Ltd. Ransomware<\/strong> attacks are more aggressive and diversified than ever before – and they use multiple attack vectors. There is an entire industry now dedicated to selling ransomware<\/strong> on the black market (ransomware<\/strong> as a service), which lowers the barrier for criminals to enter, and means more attackers are getting into this very profitable business. Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ransomware became deadly in 2020. Healthcare facilities were attacked at an alarming rate, including one incident in Germany that lead to a patient death when an attack locked critical systems and a woman needing critical care was turned away. She died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.  Ransomware is now one of […]<\/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-44419","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