Majority of ransomware victims are hit with a second attack after paying up

It does not pay to cave in to the demands of ransomware attackers, a new report from cybersecurity firm Cybereason argues. Polling 1,300 security professionals around the world, the company found that 84 percent of businesses that decided to pay the ransom suffered a second attack. In more than half of cases, they were attacked by the same threat actors …

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Paying for ransomware doesn’t always mean you get your data back

Agreeing to ransom demands does not guarantee the safe return of data following a ransomware attack, a new report from security firm Sophos suggests. Polling 5,400 IT decision-makers from organizations all over the world, Sophos found that just eight percent of ransomware victims managed to get all their data back after paying the ransom. Almost a third (29 percent) got …

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