Companies expect ransomware to increase
Bitdefender study: 46% of German respondents believe that their company would pay a ransom if necessary. German companies expect an increase in ransomware, according to Liviu Arsene, global cybersecurity researcher at Bitdefender. Ransomware remains a hit. This was most recently highlighted by the annual report of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI): Ransomware is "still one of the greatest threats to companies, authorities and other institutions as well as to private users" (https://www.bsi.bund.de /DE/Publikationen/Lageberichte/lageberichte_node.html). It is clear that most companies' protective measures are not keeping pace with the evolving strategies of cyber criminals. New figures on the extent to which ransom attacks in Germany in the wake of the ...