If you’re like most organizations, the term “ransomware” conjures up nightmares of hackers infiltrating your network, encrypting your data, and holding you hostage in exchange for a ransom. While an accurate depiction of a traditional ransomware attack.
As organizations defend against ransomware attacks by adopting reliable backup systems and stringent policies against paying ransoms, threat actors have resorted to exfiltrating data. It’s a reliable and time-tested method that today is being used in new and more harmful ways against organizations of all sizes, especially small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) and managed service providers (MSPs). ...read more!