Ransomware: Each payment funds 9 new attacks
New research from Trend Micro reveals how the ransomware industry is staying alive. A new study shows how cybercriminals operate and finance their activities. In it, the threat experts found that only ten percent of the companies affected by ransomware actually pay their extortionists. However, these payments subsidize numerous other attacks. The study contains strategic, tactical, operational and technical information on threats. Data science methods were used to compile various information about threat actors. These data and metrics help to compare groups of ransomware, assess risk and model the behavior of threat actors. A paying…