It happened in Arkansas (United States), where, on the last October, “The Heritage Company”, a company with 61 years of business, has suffered some ransomware attacks that have blocked the company system, taking all the data hostage.
The payment of the ransom demanded from the hackers was vain, as well as the operations of restore, that caused to the company losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars and led the company to choose to leave the dependent at home.
It is not an isolated phenomenon
The bitter story of the Arkansas, unfortunately, doesn’t remain an isolated phenomenon. The ransomware attacks are, in fact, constantly expanding, just think of the 16,017 new versions detected by researchers of all major antivirus brands in the world in the second quarter of 2019, including those belonging to eight new malware families (more than double the number of new samples taken a year ago for the second quarter of 2018).
Cryptolocker, in particular, is a trojan virus, a variant of ransomware that infiltrates within systems systematically attempting to access every available network resource in order to encrypt all data, making all the files on which it can write unreadable and irrecoverable. Often, in fact, the cryptographic keys used by these viruses are so complex that it would take hundreds of years of calculations to remove encryption from corrupted files.
Italy among the most affected countries in the world
The ransomware attacks are growing steadily and among the most affected nations figure just the Italy.
According to evasive Threats, pervasive effects (Micro trend report on cyber threats of 2019) our country is, in fact, at the top of the world rankings, fourth to the world most affected by malware and twelfth to ransomware raids.
The importance of prevention
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