If you were told that a new venture for your business would reap nearly 1,500 percent returns, would you pull the trigger? Cybercriminals certainly do. According to a new report from Trustwave Holdings Inc., this is the ROI that an enterprising hacker can get on certain types of breaches involving ransomware, which essentially involves taking data hostage by encrypting it until the rightful owner pays up.
The potential profits from breaches are not the only unnerving statistics revealed in the “2015 Trustwave Global Security Report,” in which the security company analyzes data collected from 574 breach investigations across 15 countries last year.
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