Tag Archive for: ransomeware

The first-ever reported human death indirectly caused by a ransomware attack

In September the first death was reported as the first-ever human death indirectly caused by a ransomware attack. The Dusseldorf hospital in Germany was unable to receive the patient as it was in the midst of dealing with a ransomware attack that hit its network and infected more than 30 internal servers.  The hospital couldn’t […]

Unprepared and exposed – welcome to the grim present of cybercrime

A study from Juniper Research foresees that an enormous amount will come from fines related to breaches of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and any other data privacy laws. At the same time, a 70 percent increase in cybercrime is predicted until 2024. A lot of the advanced cyberattacks of […]