What is ransomware?
Ransomware is a malicious software, which financially motivated criminals use to attack your data.
If they successfully infiltrate your system, the ransomware begins to encrypt files so you can no longer access them. This process doesn’t alter the file names, so it is hard to see which files have been corrupted and which haven’t.4% of data lost in an attack is unrecoverable.*
They then hold this information hostage, demanding payment for its return. The average cost of a ransomware attack is £130k on mid size businesses.*
Many leading antivirus software solutions are unable to detect new variants of ransomware for up to 4 weeks.
And with attacks corrupting up to 7000 files per minute,the consequences can be disastrous.