Sentences with phrase «hit by ransomware»

A survey of more than 1,000 office workers carried out by business cloud services provider Intermedia has revealed that 59 % of employees that had their computer hit by ransomware paid the ransom demand out of their own pockets.

It may also create a new headache for organisations that have bought bitcoin in the past in case they were hit by a ransomware attack, and who will now have to stockpile alternative cryptocurrencies too.

A new study by Trustlook, a cyber information and security firm, revealed that not only are hospitals and larger organizations hit by ransomware, but individual consumers are too.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP)-- Two branches of a Tennessee city's emergency services have been hit by ransomware as part of a worldwide malware attack that began in May.

Meanwhile, the list of organizations hit by the ransomware keeps getting longer, alongside Britain's NHS, Deutsche Bahn, FedEx, Renault, China National Petroleum Corp., Telefónica, and Russia's ministry of the interior.

Ken Corish, online safety director at the education tech charity, South West Grid for Learning, said «more and more schools» had been hit by ransomware viruses that encrypted sensitive data before the hackers demanded payment to get it back.

Not exact matches

The damage hackers caused to Target and to the organizations hit by the WannaCry and Petya ransomware campaigns were comparatively easy to address.

Almost two - fifths of businesses in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany have been hit in the last year by a ransomware attack, according to a survey by security firm Malwarebytes.

«Malware created by intelligence agencies can backfire on its creators,» noted Russian President Vladimir Putin, who blamed the U.S. government after his own country was badly hit by the WannaCry ransomware attacks.

A few months ago, our kids» school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread «ransomware,» a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting the data in which the attackers gain access.

A school district in Massachusetts has been hit by a sophisticated ransomware attack, and forced to pay $ 10,000 in Bitcoin in order to unlock the system.

This survey, conducted by Spiceworks, discovered that one in five SMBs was hit with a ransomware attack within the past 12 months.

Do you think other law firms will be hit by this latest ransomware attack?

Last month, the City of Atlanta was hit by a large - scale ransomware attack.

Shipping giant Maersk was one of the hardest hit, reporting as much as $ 300 million in losses due to «serious business interruption,» after its systems and servers were infected by the ransomware.

BTC - e turned out to be the destination for at least $ 3.2 million in ransoms paid by victims hit by just Locky ransomware, as well as for the majority of other types of ransomware, the researchers found.

The concept of malware kill switches hit the mainstream in May, when a cybersecurity wunderkind managed to halt the spread of WannaCry by registering a domain contained in the ransomware's...