As the threat of cyberattacks expands, it also matures — hackers, after all, are no longer just aiming to take control of a user’s systems or download malicious spam on a computer. Instead, they are growing increasingly more audacious, and turning to extortion and ransom strategies in drove, attacks that are proving as profitable as they are daring.
According to a report by Kaspersky Lab, the number of ransomware attacks around the world doubled from 2014 to 2015, affecting over 750,000 computers during the past year. Just under 180,000 of those attacks were done by encryption Trojans — ransomware that encrypts and changes the name of files in computers and holds them hostage in lieu of payment. Around 20 percent of encryption Trojans targeted corporate users in 2015.
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