Over 60% of German companies fall victim to ransomware
Ransomware is a lucrative line of business for cyber criminals.
In the past twelve months, six out of 10 companies in Germany (60%) were attacked in this way.
Only 29 percent have suffered no damage - probably the DEFENDERBOX in use.
Joking aside, over 30% percent have suffered high to very high losses - partly due to production downtime, costs for IT service providers or payments to the perpetrators.
For precisely these reasons, cybersecurity must now be a priority!
Because a ransomware attack can affect anyone. For this reason, all companies should equip or upgrade 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
- Around one in eight affected companies (12 percent) has responded to the financial claims.
- 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.
Important: 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%) of the affected companies were able to recover their data themselves
- They got 10% back from the perpetrators without paying a ransom
- Only 1% states that stolen data was published.
- At the same time, 17% reported 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 subsequently tightened their security precautions.
Stay vigilant - your IT will stay that way with us!