{"id":29843,"date":"2020-10-09T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29843"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:13:46","slug":"ransomware-average-attacks-rose-50-in-q3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ransomware-average-attacks-rose-50-in-q3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware: average attacks rose 50% in Q3 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the third quarter of 2020, the average daily number of attacks using ransomware rose by almost 50% compared with the first half of the year. Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.checkpoint.com\/2020\/10\/06\/study-global-rise-in-ransomware-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research<\/span><\/a> by Check Point show this.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The greatest number of ransomware attacks in Q3 was recorded in the United States, India, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112664\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ransom1-300x178.png\" alt=\"Report: average ransomware attacks rose 50% in Q3 2020\" width=\"820\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ransom1-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ransom1.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the United States, this figure rose by 98%, in Sri Lanka by 436%. In Russia, growth stood at 57.9%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since July, activity by the Maze and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ryuk-ransomware-creators-moved-more-than-1-million-in-bitcoin-via-binance\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryuk<\/span><\/a> ransomware groups has intensified significantly. The latter targets around 20 organisations per week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To prevent cyberattacks, Check Point recommends backing up data and regularly updating software to fix vulnerabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, U.S. authorities urged victims not to pay ransomware operators subject to sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third quarter of 2020, the average daily number of ransomware attacks rose by almost 50% compared with the first half of the year. Data from Check Point&#8217;s research show this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-29843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"7","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29845,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29843\/revisions\/29845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}