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Adam Bannister is a contributor to IFSEC Global, having been in the role of Editor from 2014 through to November 2019. Adam also had stints as a journalist at cybersecurity publication, The Daily Swig, and as Managing Editor at Dynamis Online Media Group.
There were 167 times as many ransomware attacks in 2016 (638 million) as 2015 (four million).
Could off-the-shelf hacking tools be a big part of the reason?
Our video below explores a troubling new trend that democratises the use of ransomware.
Watch: Rise of the amateur hackers – how ransomware-as-a-service is fuelling the cybercrime epidemicThere were 167 times as many ransomware attacks in 2016 (638 million) as 2015 (four million). Could off-the-shelf hacking tools be a big part of the reason?
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