It may seem very basic, but having a backup and raising awareness among employees can help any organization evade ransomware attacks .
Allan Contreras Flores, R Team leader at ICT Hub, works daily against cyber threats and ransomware attacks .
For three years he has dicat part of his time to Bug Bounty , that is, he finds vulnerabilities in companies and reports them.
For Contreras talking about what
ransomware is and how it spreads is important because companies have no idea how much they can lose by being attack and losing their information.
Damage to end japan whatsapp number data customers, significant financial losses and a blow to reputation can result from perfectly preventable ransomware attacks , where public awareness plays a fundamental role, as do backup solutions and alert systems.
53% of companies in Mexico have not experienc the kidnapping of their information; however, all those that have data about their companies and clients should feel target because data is the new currency of exchange in the world and among cybercriminals.
Ransomware is malicious code programm to cause harm, take other people’s information and demand a ransom payment in exchange for files, personal and/or business documents and computers.
A more catastrophic type of ransomware is one that hijacks the operating system, taking over the information of an entire data center .
The third way is through new vulnerabilities in operating systems . The Red Team leader stated that all assets of organizations undergo changes and this opens vulnerabilities.
“Paying the ransom for information is negotiating with criminals and there is no guarantee that it will be return; furthermore. If you pay once they can attack you again because you were a profitable client for them.”
Allan Contreras R Team Leader
Contreras recall that in recent function ai real estate agent months Mexico has seen the ransomware attack suffer by the Mexican by lists National Lottery . The insurance company Axxa and Pemex in 2020.