Ransomware attacks 'getting bolder': Europol

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NSTlifestyle: Police and the private sector “confirm a diminishing number of ransomware attacks targeting individual citizens” but that they were “becoming more bold“.

Europol said it was also worried about the rise of so-called “self-generated explicit material” by underaged children who share sexual images and videos with peers through smartphones, making themselves vulnerable to sexual offenders.

One of the most visible ransomware attacks happened in March last year when SamSam malaware paralysed the southeastern US city of Atlanta for several days. “This only proved to be the tip of the iceberg,” Europol said. “There are cases where a company’s encrypted files have been ransomed for over one million euros,” the agency said.

These attacks which permanently erase or irreversibly damage company data doubled during the first six months of 2019 with half focusing on the manufacturing sector, Europol said.

 

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