Ransomware, the tool of choice for cyber extortion

Cybercriminals didn’t used to be so obvious. If hackers infiltrated your corporate network, they would do everything possible to avoid detection. It was in their best interests not to alert a victim that they’d fallen victim to a cybercriminal.

But now, if you are attacked with file-encrypting ransomware, criminals will brazenly announce they’re holding your corporate data hostage until you pay a ransom in order to get it back.

It’s the modern enterprise’s reliance on the internet which is enabling ransomware to boom. Every day, every employee receives hundreds of emails and many roles require these employees to download and open attachments, so it’s something which is often done on autopilot. Taking advantage of employees’ willingness to open attachments from unknown senders is allowing cybercriminals to successfully run ransomware campaigns. Sorry for the short blog, this is just an edited version of my supposed to be Crab Island blog but I made a new one instead of just editing it. Anyways, I hope you learned something from this.