Destruction to follow
May 18th, 2017 by Jesper Kråkhede
Following my last post a few clients started asking me about the future of ransomware. I brought up this picture showing a number of predictions I have done during the years and when they were found in the wild.
One prediction is that more failures will happened, either intentionally or unintentionally, and that will start to cost a lot more money, not from the ransom in it self but due to that there will be longer downtime.
Today many companies have invested in online-backups with online meaning that the backups are accessible from a network share or similar just to make it easy for to restore the files. This will be costly in the future as ransomware will target those systems to make sure that companies pay the ransom or just to create havoc.