Ransomware moving forward
Mar 23rd, 2017 by Jesper Kråkhede
A client of mine was hit by a simple ransomware this morning and it costed her one workstation and a few hours in reinstallation. She has listened to me and implemented a good way to manage reinstallation of clients and take backups. This specific company has removed file shares and are using SharePoint instead so they weren’t hit that hard this time bit what about the future?
There is way too much money to make in ransomware and there will be more people to enter the market. Some will be sloppy and will not be able to decrypt or just ignore it all together. Others will be building on the success of others and create more complex ransomware that will exploit vulnerabilities etc.
I suspect that the standard malware will include a ransomware component moving forward. In case you cannot steal the credentials of a user you can always initiate a ransomware to at least make a small amount of money.