“Mobile ransomware has risen by over 250 percent during the first few months of 2017, according to a report Monday by the security firm Kaspersky,” according to Newsweek.
“Ransomware victims have paid more than $25 million in ransoms over the last two years, according to a study presented today by researchers at Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.” [source]
Top 3 Health Data Breaches Impact Nearly 1.5M Individuals. (Honestly, it has to be higher than that!)
Get Your Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual by Health IT Security
The 2017 Internet Security Threat Report by Symantec
E-BOOKS
Ransomware Mitigation: Autotask today unveiled an ebook to help IT service providers protect customers from ransomware attacks.
Additional ebooks and guides on the topic include Datto’s Business Guide to Ransomware; Intronis’s Smarter MSP’s Guide to Ransomware; ProofPoint’s Ransomware Survival Guide; and SonicWall’s How to Protect Against Ransomware. [from Channele2e]
EQUIFAX Hack
Check to see if you are one of the 147M hacked – that’s half the adults in America! Then read any of these 3 articles about what to do next – including pulling credit reports from all 3 agencies and freezing your credit – NYT, CNET, NYT.