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from the next-up:-ransomware-for-IoT-devices dept.
According to an article on DarkReading.com, ransomware will remain king in 2017.
2016 was the year of ransomware, with hackers focusing their attentions on exploiting Internet users and businesses around the world for profit. According to the FBI, cyber-extortion losses have skyrocketed, and ransomware was on track to become a $1 billion a year crime in 2016.
Our research shows no sign of this security nightmare slowing down in 2017. Hackers are becoming more advanced, and ransomware remains an incredibly easy, lucrative way for them to make money. Unfortunately, the security community has only started to develop defenses that can protect Internet users from ransomware.
With the new year around the corner, security researchers at Malwarebytes Labs have compiled a list of predictions for new ransomware threats, developments, and opportunities that they expect consumers and businesses will face in 2017.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:28PM
This is just plain stupid. The ransomware, by and large, isn't even coming from the US, it's coming from offshore, especially Russia.
This ransomware epidemic is just something else you can blame on the Windows monoculture and the pathetic security in the Windows OS itself. If you can click on an email and have this execute native code on your computer, there is something fundamentally wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:26PM
Well, according to his critics, Mr. O (somehow) messed up the entire world.
Anyhow, GOP Congress would block anything like the New Deal. O has proposed the idea of an infrastructure bill for a long time. GOP wouldn't even consider it, claiming the deficit would kill puppies and Batman.
(In practice it may stimulate the economy enough to at least in part pay for itself deficit-wise. How much is a matter of dispute)