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Andy Meek
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The cyber landscape continues to be increasingly favorable for hackers and other assorted criminals who initiate hacks and intrusions into peoples' computers, mobile devices, and the apps and services they use on all that hardware.
It's not just that the attack surface for things like data breaches keeps getting larger, with a growing number of people tethered to devices and to the digital grid after a year of working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic. The attacks themselves continue to capitalize on peoples' stupid mistakes, as well as tried-and-true methods of digital sabotage, all of which are also helping make at least some of those attacks, in the ransomware sphere, more profitable to execute than ever. In fact, new research shows that the average ransom paid by victims of ransomware attacks has almost tripled over the past 12 months.
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Hackers keep getting rich off of your stupid mistakes originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 17:27:24 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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