Roger Grimes over at InfoWorld did a great write-up about the state of cyber ransom these days. He also went back in history for a while and gives the factors that have led up to the current dramatic increase of high-tech ransomware. He started out with:
"Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse. Why? Because success breeds imitators -- and ransom has been paying off big lately. You either pay a large sum of money or suffer the consequences.
I'm not talking about some CryptoLocker variant holding an individual's computer hostage unless money is sent via PayPal or Coinbase. I'm talking about scenarios in which a hacker gains complete control over a company's valuable digital assets and demands major compensation to keep all that loot from landing in the bit bucket. Roger has always been a major proponent of security of Security Awareness Training and this column is no exception. More:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/prepare-yourself-high-stakes-cyber-ransom-245320?
