Ransomware attacks brought adverse loss rates of electronic attacks

New study from Symantec "about the rapid increase of malware known as" Ransomware ", where the company estimated the losses caused by cyber criminals across this software for victims 5 million AED in General" about more than 18 million, a figure that is increasing annually.

Although first discovered quality from these attacks date back to 2009, however, the largest number of these attacks were concentrated and hidden software until recently in Russia and Eastern Europe. Over time these attacks has grown and has become more common among international Internet gangs published threats these programs over the past year to areas of Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East.

The modus operandi of the attacks this renewable software, disable victims ' computers, even having reset the hardware status back to another point of reference, where attackers often used social geometries such as scams, false messages claim to be from the local sovereign actors to persuade the victims to pay money. And often contain such threat messages such as "you surf blocked content, you must pay financial grave de".

Symantec report shows "that up to 2.9 percent of the victims are cash payments, were up in its entirety to 460 dollars, or the equivalent" 1690 AED ", where the report noted a network attack on gangs 495 a computer over a period of 18 days.

"Symantec" asserts that the best way to guard against this increasing attacks is through caution computer users to provide devices and applications with the latest updates from the manufacturers, in addition to using reliable protection and programmes to combat and to prevent such attacks.