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Sead Fadilpašić

Ransomware attacks are getting much better at encrypting data

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Ransomware operators are getting better at encrypting data during attacks, causing extra headaches for the IT teams trying to parry the attack, a new report has claimed. 

The Sophos state of ransomware 2023 report, based on a vendor-agnostic survey of 3,000 cybersecurity and IT leaders,found in three-quarters (76%) of ransomware attacks, threat actors managed to encrypt the data - the highest percentage since Sophos started tracking the metric three years ago.

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