{"id":389,"date":"2016-08-04T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/activateit.net.au\/?p=389"},"modified":"2016-08-05T17:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T07:39:29","slug":"aug-4-2016-report-claims-more-than-half-of-uk-firms-have-been-hit-by-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Aug 4, 2016: Report claims more than half of UK firms have been hit by ransomware."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Arstechnica\u2019s Tom Mendelsohn writes:<\/h4>\n<p>Large UK companies are amongst the hardest hit by ransomware in western countries according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.malwarebytes.com\/OstermanRansomwareSurvey.html\">a new report<\/a>\u00a0commissioned by Malwarebytes. The report\u00a0found that more than half of large firms had been affected\u2014and that nine percent had been left &#8220;entirely unable to operate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware is clearly a growth industry in Britain: 58 percent of IT directors in this country have paid ransoms in the past, and the UK experiences more attacks than the Canada, Germany, and the US. American bosses are\u00a021 times less likely to give in to hackers&#8217; demands than their UK counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2016\/08\/more-than-half-of-uk-firms-have-been-hit-by-ransomware-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mceu_45\" class=\"wp-link-preview\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arstechnica\u2019s Tom Mendelsohn writes: Large UK companies are amongst the hardest hit by ransomware in western countries according to\u00a0a new report\u00a0commissioned by Malwarebytes. The report\u00a0found that more than half of large firms had been affected\u2014and that nine percent had been left &#8220;entirely unable to operate.&#8221; Ransomware is clearly a growth industry in Britain: 58 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activateit.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}