UK firms at ‘significant risk’ of cyber-ransom as hackers target efforts

• by Ellie Hurst
• Industry News

The cybersecurity threat to UK businesses is growing as hackers step up their efforts to target specific organisations. This is according to cyber security software provider Comtact, who suggest that the tactics used by cyber criminals are changing. In the past, hackers had relied on “economies of scale” to conduct ransom attacks, adopting a scattergun approach that extracted smaller ransom payments from a large number of potentially susceptible organisations.