Every eighth company pays a ransom

Over 50% of companies fall victim to ransomware

Ransomware is a lucrative line of business for cyber criminals. In the past twelve months, 6 out of 10 companies (60 percent) were attacked in this way. Only 29 percent had taken good precautions — such as the DEFENDERBOX — no damage. However, 31 percent did suffer damage — partly due to production downtime, costs for IT service providers or payments to the perpetrators.  

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A ransomware attack can affect anyone. All companies should therefore equip their technical IT security with suitable cybersecurity solutions, train employees to recognize attacks at an early stage and, above all, make backups. This way, data can at least be restored to the systems if the worst comes to the worst.

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Bitkom study

About Every eighth company affected (12 percent) has responded to the financial demands. Three quarters (76 percent) of the companies state that they have not paid anything, 12 percent do not want to or cannot provide any information on this. 

These are the findings of a study commissioned by the digital association Bitkom, for which more than 1,000 companies were surveyed on a representative basis.

Ransomware is malware that is infiltrated into networks and computers, encrypts the data and sometimes also sends it to the attackers. In order to regain access to their own IT and to prevent disclosure, the affected companies are asked to make payments by the cyber criminals.

Do not pay under any circumstances!

Bitkom recommends: Anyone who falls victim to ransomware should never pay a ransom! On the one hand, the company finances the next attacks by cyber criminals, who are usually organized crime groups. Secondly, the malware is often so poorly programmed that the perpetrators are unable to completely undo the encryption.

Only four out of ten (40 percent) of the affected companies were able to recover their data themselves, while 10 percent were able to get it back from the perpetrators without paying a ransom. Only one percent stated that stolen data was published. At the same time, 17% report massive restrictions on business operations as a result of the attack. 42% admit that they had not expected to fall victim to a ransomware attack. And 54% have tightened their security precautions as a result.