Positive Technologies experts: ransomware operators threaten to disclose stolen data unless the victims pay
Positive Technologies cybersecurity experts have summarized their findings of the last quarter of 2019 in the report Cybersecurity Threatscape Q4 (insert link). They found that the number of cyber attacks increased by 12 percent in comparison to the previous quarter, and that payment card information comprised almost a third (32 percent) of all data stolen from organizations. The report indicates that the number of targeted attacks increased by two percentage points versus the previous quarter, and now makes up 67 percent of all attacks.