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Sead Fadilpašić

Many retailers are struggling to deal with ransomware attacks

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Slowly but surely, retailers are losing the battle against ransomware operators, a worrying new report has claimed.

After surveying 3,000 IT and cybersecurity leaders in SMBs and enterprises around the world (including 355 from the retail industry), Sophos found that only 26% of retailers were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before having their data encrypted. Last year, it was 28%, and the year before that - 34%.

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