Ransomware gangs seem to be getting desperate when it comes to getting results, as besides encrypting and leaking data on the web, they’ve also started threatening CEOs with physical violence.
Cybersecurity researchers Semperis claim over the past 12 months, in 40% of ransomware incidents, the CEOs of the affected company were also physically threatened – which rises to 46% among US-based organizations. But even paying up may not be enough, as the research found more than half (55%) of organizations who paid a demand did so multiple times, with nearly a third (29%) of those firms paying three or more times, and 15% were not even sent decryption keys, or received corrupted keys.
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Source: TechRadar News
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