What is ransomware? What damage does it cause?

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Cyberattacks are becoming more and more common and affect all types of companies , regardless of their size or sector. If your company is not properly protected – 63% of companies do not have security solutions – you become the ideal victim. In recent years, ransomware attacks have become popular due to their profitability , allowing cybercriminals to make easy money by hijacking your computers' data.

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that, when installed on computers, gives control to cybercriminals, allowing them to “hijack” the information contained therein. When the compromised user or company tries to regain control, the cybercriminal demands a financial ransom in exchange .



How can Ransomware attack your system?
In recent years, the number of ransomware attacks has austria telegram database increased considerably, reaching a five-fold increase in infections between 2014 and 2016. The most famous and those that have caused the most damage are PC Cyborg, Reveton, Cryptowall, Cryptolocker, RSA4096, WannaCRY… The latter was the one that originated the famous attack in May 2016 on Telefónica and many other companies, causing major security breaches in many of them. It infected more than 200,000 victims in more than 150 countries .

The real danger is not so much in each of these malwares, but in their mutations and variants, which evolve faster than antiviruses , and before a solution is found to stop them, they always infect some computer, thus benefiting cybercriminals.