Here is an insight into just a few high profile cases.Ī new variant of WannaCry ransomware wreaked havoc with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) this summer. Recent ransomware attacks in 2018 crippled businesses large and small. 75% of Canadian companies paid, followed by, 22% of German businesses, and 58% in the UK.įacts on The Biggest Ransomware Attacks of 2018 97% of United States’ companies refused to pay a ransom.Fewer than a third of organizations who pay the ransom receive all of their money back.Ten percent of all ransom demands are over $5,000.
More than half of ransoms were paid bitcoin.The NotPetya ransomware attack cost FedEx $300 million in Q1 2017.Ransomware generates over $25 million in revenue for hackers each year.An IBM study suggested that over a quarter of all companies would pay more than $20,000 to hackers to retrieve data that had been stolen.Ransomware Statistics show that hackers are focusing more steadily on large businesses who will often pay tens of thousands of dollars to receive their data back. Ransomware financial demands are often severe and significant. In 2019 ransomware from phishing emails increased 109 percent over 2017.34% of businesses hit with malware took a week or more to regain access to their data.A total of 850.97 million ransomware infections were detected by the institute in 2018.Ransomware attacks have increased over 97 percent in the past two years.1.5 million new phishing sites are created every month.A new organization will fall victim to ransomware every 14 seconds in 2019, and every 11 seconds by 2021.Want to learn the key tactics to preventing and detecting ransomware attacks? Read This.
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