48 percent of 500 cybersecurity decision makers say they have been hit by at least one ransomware attack in the last 12 months. The average victim was hit six times a year, the report says. Most companies were able to stop the attacks by successfully decrypting the files, or restoring the encrypted files from backups. The attackers often came back to ask for more money first, says Jeremiah Grossman, chief of security strategy at SentinelOne, which sponsored the report. Grossman: “The bad guys are going after more money””]
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