Ransomware attacks and threats to IoT devices soar in 2020

Ransomware attacks grew by 485 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. Attacks in the first and second quarters accounting for 64 percent of all attacks or 19 percent higher than the first two quarters of 2019. This is one of the findings of the latest Consumer Threat Landscape report from Bitdefender. which also shows that IoT devices with proprietary operating systems were responsible for 96 percent of vulnerabilities even though they account for only 34 percent of consumer devices. Smart TV vulnerabilities increased 335 percent compared to 2019 while the number of vulnerabilities found in NAS devices increased by 189… [Continue Reading]