The number of attacks by ransom on companies grew three times, which means a shift from an attack on two minutes in January, from one to 40 seconds, in October, according to Kaspersky Lab.
For individual users, the frequency increased to every 20 seconds, every 10 seconds. Given that occurred this year alone over 62 new families of ransomware threat has grown so much that Kaspersky Lab called ransomware the key subject of 2016.
Among others, in 2016 he showed how attractive it became contracting "services" of ransomware offenders who lack the necessary skills, resources or inclination to develop some of your own. Under this agreement, the creators of code offers its product malware, "on demand", selling variants customized to customers, which they then distributed through spam messages and websites in exchange for a fee paid to the person who created - the main beneficiary in respect financially.
"The classic business model by " affiliation " seems to work as effectively for ransomware, as for other types of malware. Victims often pay so that money continues to flow through the system. Inevitably, this has led to almost daily of new programs that encrypts "said Fedor Sinitsyn, Senior Malware Analyst at Kaspersky Lab.
Fortunately, 2016 was also the year in which the world has joined forces to fight back. No More Ransom project, launched in July, brings together his security companies and law enforcement organizations to identify and stop large families ransomware, helping users to recover their data and undermining the lucrative business model of offenders.
