{"id":52548,"date":"2021-11-09T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52548"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:47:43","slug":"survey-russian-business-pays-ransomware-demands-more-often-according-to-a-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/survey-russian-business-pays-ransomware-demands-more-often-according-to-a-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Russian business pays ransomware demands more often, according to a study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, Russian companies began paying ransomware operators more often, according to a Positive Technologies study. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/5064250\">\u00ab\u042a\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey, in the current year 16% of organisations in Russia complied with the hackers&#8217; demands after attacks. In the 2019 study, none of the respondents paid the ransomware demands.<\/p>\n<p>The main targets have been the financial sector, the fuel and energy sector, and government institutions. A third of the companies surveyed were targeted by attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts point to the growth of the cryptocurrency market as one of the main reasons behind the surge in attackers \u2014 hackers are asking for payments in digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>According to Comparitech, in 2020 the damage to Russia from cybercrime attacks amounted to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russia-ranks-fourth-globally-in-total-losses-from-hacker-attacks\">$15.2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For details on ransomware software and its consequences for the crypto industry, read ForkLog&#8217;s exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, Russian companies began paying ransomware operators more often, according to a Positive Technologies study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,167,27],"class_list":["post-52548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-research","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52548","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=52548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52550,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52548\/revisions\/52550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}