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Ransomware will be used to sow chaos


Feb 8, 2021
Nearly half (45%) of South African respondents in Mimecast’s State of Email Security 2020 report said ransomware attacks had impacted their organisation.
The common consequences of successful attacks included data loss, downtime and financial loss.
Duane Nicol, subject matter expert for security awareness and brand protection services at Mimecast, predicts we’ll continue to see major ransomware strains that will compromise global networks in 2021.
“The objective won’t be money, but anarchy,” he says. “DoppelPaymer proved this in 2020 when an attack on a German hospital delayed a dying lady from getting to hospital. Some have even labelled this is the first officially recorded death due to cyberattack. It’s since been proven that she would likely have died anyway, but some might say she would have had more of a chance if she hadn’t been turned away from the first hospital. ....

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