Ransomware is now the biggest cybersecurity threat

Ransomware has replaced advanced persistent threat (APT) network attacks as the most problematic cyberthreat — and early indications suggest that they’ll be the main problem for 2016 as a whole, cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky Lab have warned.

The findings are outlined in Kaspersky Lab’s IT Threat Evolution in Q1 2016 report, which details how security experts detected 2,900 new ransomware malware modifications appearing between January and March this year — a rise of 14 percent.

Not only is malware increasingly altering itself — thus making ransomware attacks more difficult to defend against — but also the number of attacks are rising, with the number of attacked users up by 30 percent compared with the previous quarter.

It’s clear that ransomware has become a more significant issue in early 2016, with various high-profile infections being widely reported which led to the United States and Canada issuing a joint alert on ransomware. For the full article click here 

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