Ransomware: MediaPRO Security Awareness Animation

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“Ransomware incidents are on the rise” may sound like the plot of the next summer blockbuster, but it’s not. It’s the unfortunate reality faced by organizations every day as they struggle to keep their data secure.

In Verizon Enterprises’ much-cited Data Breach Investigations Report, researchers found that 39% of crimeware incidents in 2015 were related to ransomware. Wired Magazine reports that ransomware victims paid $24 million to cyber criminals in 2015.

As if that weren’t enough, other estimates put the total cost of just one type of ransomware at $325 million since it was discovered in January last year. As Wired reports, this staggering figure includes the cost of stripping the ransomware from infected machines and restoring backup data, which can take weeks or months.

The FBI has even issued their own warnings about ransomware. In their weekly podcast, FBI officials warned of it as an evolving threat increasingly targeted businesses, local governments, and other larger organizations.

“[Cyber criminals are] seeing that there’s more money in these larger enterprises as opposed to someone like your grandma or my grandma that just has one computer,” warns Jeffrey Coburn, with the FBI’s Major Cyber Crimes Unit.

Though the first modern wave of ransomware was reported in 2005, the FBI and InfoSec experts of all types have seen a marked uptick in attacks since 2015. And the attackers are becoming more sophisticated. As the FBI reports, delivery methods have expanded beyond the standard phishy email to malicious code injected via out-of-date plugins on legitimate websites.

Educate your employees about ransomware and how to thwart these malicious attacks with MediaPRO’s ransomware awareness reinforcement animation, available free to download. This animation covers ransomware basics and best practices for keeping cyber criminals from successfully extorting your organization.


MediaPRO’s reinforcement resources can be branded for your organization and deployed at any time as part of your security and/or privacy awareness program. Our mantra: Training + Reinforcement = Behavior Change.

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Contact us for details, or to schedule a demo of our award-winning Adaptive Awareness Framework.

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