The 2021 Cyber Threat Bulletin tracks a 151% year\u002Dover\u002Dyear rise in ransomware attacks worldwide by mid\u002D2021.
And while larger bodies like Newfoundland and Labrador’s health authority in 2021 have not been immune, smaller organizations have also been targeted.
In October 2019, the centre thought the threat posed by RYUK was great enough to warrant issuing an alert about it. Instead, it’s through documents obtained from a right-to-information request that help piece together how and when the attack came about, and the steps the city took in the days following.Article content
Phishing — a method, often through email, used by threat actors to mislead victims into handing over personal information that can give them access to online systems — was the most common source of infiltration, making up 38% of attacks. Such personal information, depending on the victim of the attack, could include personal health-care information, contact information such as addresses or even credit card numbers.“ become more sophisticated in determining how much a company will potentially be willing to pay in order to gather data,” said Catherine Beagan Flood, partner at Blakes.Article content
While there has always been cybercrime since the dawn of the world wide web, in the last eight years or so with the introduction of cryptocurrency — a favoured payment method of threat actors due to its anonymity — more and more potential threat actors have capitalized on the opportunity it presents, Dubrovsky said.
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