Half of surveyed US businesses admitted to suffering a ransomware attack

Expect to hear more, not less, about ransomware next year.

A recent survey of 500 businesses revealed that nearly half were slammed by a ransomware attack within the last 12 months; 85 percent suffered from three or more attacks, with six being the average for how many times an organization was a victim of ransomware.

If you narrow the SentinelOne survey (pdf) down from cybersecurity decision makers in US, UK, France and Germany, to look at only US respondents, then 50 percent admitted to being successfully attacked in the last year. That’s slightly higher than the overall worldwide picture of 48 percent suffering from a ransomware attack in the last 12 months.

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