During Infosecurity 2017, John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos told the audience all about the current Threat Landscape. What are the nastiest malware sorts out there today that are affecting our everyday lives? What and who are the baddies we should be worrying about?
38. Ransomware
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39. Ransomware
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Notas do Editor
Not only an arms race but also asymmetric warfare
Imbalance between attacker and defender costs
Cost more to defend than to attack
Attackers right once, defenders always
Perfect world: no bugs in code, all users security experts, exploitation impossible
Near perfect world: cyber weapons are single use
28/11/2016
Office: 16.07%
Zip w/exe: 0.06%
Zip w/JS: 14.42%
Zip w/WSF: 3.57%
Zip w/VBS: 12.78%
Total: 46.90%
$60 B FY15 >20% over FY14
Outpaces all other media
Mobile ad rev EU 2015 $7,029 MM, global $39 MM
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