Ransomware attackers in the past year have begun to launch small, targeted campaigns. Attackers behind ransomware campaigns have gone as far as creating special teams with special developer skills to penetrate networks and write phishing emails that appear more convincing. Financial organizations, higher-education institutions, and healthcare, manufacturing, and technology companies, are some of the industries that have been hit this year with targeted ransomware campaigns. The payout is based on how many endpoints you can compromise, Kaspersky Lab’s Anton Ivanov says.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/small-targeted-ransomware-attacks-emerge