Ransomware mutations double in 2019

During the second quarter of this year, researchers at Kaspersky detected 16,017 new ransomware modifications including ones belonging to eight new malware families which is a dangerous sign that criminal activity is intensifying online.The number of ransomware modifications discovered by the cybersecurity firm is more than double the number of new samples detected during the same period last year.Kaspersky's new IT Threat Evolution Q2 2019 report also revealed that 232,292 unique users were tar