Follow-up on ransomware
Dec 31st, 2012 by Jesper Kråkhede
Just two months ago I pointed out that ransomware will be a bigger threat in the year to come. Quite soon afterwards a minor medical clinic was hit with a ransomware having their patient database encrypted. The hackers demanded only $4 000 for the password. A fairly low sum but it would most possible trigger a pay-out instead of demanding a larger sum that would trigger the clinic to try to break the encryption instead. With many small organisations less than adequate security we will most definitely see a greater number of such incidents in the year to come.