This comes just a week after news broke that Scottish businesses were under threat as ransomware attacks doubled in the first six months of this year.
Businesses and people around the world suffer ransomware attacks every day. Exceptionally since the pandemic started, we hear more and more about hackers abusing vulnerabilities.
According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, ransomware attacks are up 151% in the first half of 2021, compared to the same time in 2020. The United States is the most ransomware-threatened country by a significant margin.
The cybercrime statistics are based on the 2021 Cyber Threat Report released by SonicWall. The numbers were sourced from real-world data gathered by the SonicWall Capture Threat Network, which collects information in 215 countries and territories.
In the first half of 2020, there were a total of 121.4 million ransomware attacks across the world.
The most significant ransomware attack in H1 2020 was the Maze ransomware outbreak in the Cognizant company’s network. The attack cost about…
