Ransomware in 2016

In 2016, ransomware attacks on business increased three-fold: which represents a change from an attack every two minutes in January to one every 40 seconds by October.
For individuals, the rate of increase went from every 20 seconds to every ten seconds. With more than 62 new families of ransomware introduced during the year, the threat grew so aggressively that the IT security product company Kaspersky Lab has named ransomware its key topic for 2016.Fedor Sinitsyn, Senior Malware Analys...