{"id":9949,"date":"2023-05-10T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/ransomware-payments-nearly-double-in-one-year\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:38:17","slug":"ransomware-payments-nearly-double-in-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/ransomware-payments-nearly-double-in-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware payments nearly double in one year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British cybersecurity firm also finds UK ransom payments even higher than global average<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware payments have nearly doubled to $1.5m (\u00a31.2m) over the past year, with the highest-earning organisations the most likely to pay attackers, according to a survey.<\/p>\n<p>Sophos, a British cybersecurity firm, found that the average ransomware payment rose from $812,000 the previous year. The average payment by UK organisations in 2023 was even higher than the global average, at $2.1m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/10\/ransomware-payments-nearly-double-in-one-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4e4a13047c4cbbc9c00cbb118f9046b25b344c3c\/0_200_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=90a8f33d8ecd81e37b467d5282d0f981\" title=\"Ransomware payments nearly double in one year\" \/>British cybersecurity firm also finds UK ransom payments even higher than global average<br \/>\nRansomware payments have nearly doubled to $1.5m (\u00a31.2m) over the past year, with the highest-earning organisations the most likely to pay attackers, according to a survey.<br \/>\nSophos, a British cybersecurity firm, found that the average ransomware payment rose from $812,000 the previous year. The average payment by UK organisations in 2023 was even higher than the global average, at $2.1m. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British cybersecurity firm also finds UK ransom payments even higher than global average Ransomware payments have nearly doubled to $1.5m (\u00a31.2m) over the past year, with the highest-earning organisations the most likely to pay attackers, according to a survey. Sophos, a British cybersecurity firm, found that the average ransomware payment rose from $812,000 the previous &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/ransomware-payments-nearly-double-in-one-year\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ransomware payments nearly double in one year<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}