Technology

Ransomware runs rampant

According to this year's corporate IT security risks survey, 20% of businesses across the world experienced a ransomware attack in the last 12 months.

26 October 2016

During the second quarter of 2016, Kaspersky Lab saw over 83 000 mobile ransomware Trojans for devices running Android, over 3.5 million malicious installation packages and 27 403 mobile banking Trojans.

This was revealed by Marco Preuss, the director of the company's European research and analysis team, at a cyber-security meeting in Malta last weekend.

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