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An absurdly small number of companies affected by ransomware reported the incidents to the federal government last year, newly released FBI data shows. While more than a third of all ransomware infections occurred in the U.S. last year, according to U.S. cybersecurity firm Symantec, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) only “received 2,673 complaints identified as ransomware” in 2016 amounting to “losses of over $2.4 million,” according to a new report. Current private sector estimates for total ransomware losses in 2016 alone exceeded $100 million, said Vincent Weafer, vice president of McAfee Labs, and that’s “likely on the conservative side.” Verizon also found that ransomware infections were up 50 percent from 2015 to 2016. And McAfee saw more than 9 million cases of ransomware during the same time period. “One of the biggest problems with prosecuting ransomware is the recalcitrance of organizations and people in reporting they were hacked,” said John Bambenek, […]
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Corporate cybersecurity experts told senators that the U.S. government should launch offensive cyber-missions against hackers who attack and steal information from American companies. During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing Wednesday, Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., asked a panel of prominent private sector cybersecurity executives how the U.S. government could better collaborate with American companies to combat malicious digital activity. The four-person panel, which consisted of individuals that work for Symantec, Monsanto, the Marine Corps University and a prominent U.S. law firm, unanimously agreed and told lawmakers that the U.S. government must do more to curb malicious cyber-activity. The follow-up question, however, of how exactly the country should advance such a broad effort, was met with widely different answers. “I would say where the government can help corporate America most is to do the thing corporate America cannot do for itself,” said Kevin Keeney, director of cyber incident response for the […]
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