Resilience’s McNerney: Threat actor groups pivoting from encryption to extortion

Amid the ongoing spike in activity by cyber criminal gangs, Resilience’s Mike McNerney has told The Insurer that there is a growing trend of threat actors moving away from encrypting victims’ systems and increasing their focus on extorting firms by threatening to release their data.

 

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