Thursday, November 26, 2020

paying the ransom rarely works

However, new research continues to show that paying the ransom rarely works in a business’s favor. For instance, businesses that do not pay lose an average of $732,000 in downtime, remediation costs and the like, but businesses that pay end up losing, on average, $1,448,000. This is consistent with other findings that indicate only 26% of the enterprises that paid a ransom actually got their data back.

The perception though, not the reality, is what moves end users and businesses to pay up – and what keeps ransomware spreaders in business.There are other understandable, very human weaknesses that ransomware spreaders have been taking advantage of throughout the pandemic. A flood of ransomware vectors disguised as pandemic-related news links is one of them. Since the pandemic is the news these days, links related to therapeutics, vaccine timelines and the like provide bad actors an opportunity to deceive.

And since they are remote versus on site with an IT department, employees may need to install video conferencing software and other programs they might not be familiar with. Ransomware can be disguised as these business-critical tools.

Simply put, we’re living in a world where people are more easily tricked and more likely to pay, and the technological fail safes we rely on to protect ourselves are compromised as well. As with all pandemic-related challenges, protecting enterprises from ransomware given these circumstances is an intimidating task.

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