Emerging ransomware techniques for targeted attacks, as well as different types of ransomware with different routines.
Trend Micro's 2020 semi-annual report shows that the number of ransomware infections has decreased, but the amount of money paid to access the encrypted data has increased. The cyber criminals focused particularly on institutions and companies for whom access to their data and the restoration of their systems is of essential importance. This need is reflected in the sum of the ransom demand.
Different types of ransomware
Cybercriminals 'approaches to targeted attacks are also evolving: researchers observed different types of ransomware with different routines for penetrating victims' systems. Trend Micro has a detailed article on this.
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