{"id":203,"date":"2016-05-25T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/?p=203"},"modified":"2016-08-01T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:15:20","slug":"43-percent-of-consumers-dont-even-know-what-ransomware-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/43-percent-of-consumers-dont-even-know-what-ransomware-is\/","title":{"rendered":"43 Percent of Consumers Don’t Even Know What Ransomware Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ransom-note\"These days it seems like you can’t watch the evening news without hearing another ransomware horror story. The \u00a0epidemic of weaponized encryption has hit a fever pitch in recent weeks, reaching an all-time high<\/a> in April of 2016.<\/p>\n

People and companies in the United States paid $325 million to ransomware<\/a>\u00a0wielding\u00a0cybercriminals from January to November 2015, and a number of high-profile attacks<\/a> made headlines in mainstream media outlets. The FBI even chimed in<\/a>\u00a0to tell folks not to pay their ransoms, which, by all accounts, is some pretty bad advice.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In fact, the explosive growth in ransomware attacks has hit the point that the U.S. and Canadian governments felt it necessary to release a\u00a0joint-alert statement in March<\/a> to educate their citizens about the threat.<\/p>\n

Apparently that didn’t work, because 43% of consumers in the US and Canada have never even heard of ransomware<\/strong>, according to a new report from Kaspersky Labs.<\/p>\n

For their study, Kaspersky Lab surveyed 4,000 Americans and 1,000 Canadians aged over 16 and found that only 16 percent of respondents mentioned ransomware as a concern.<\/p>\n

The survey also found that the older you are, the more oblivious you may be to cyber threats. 54% of respondents over 55 did not know what steps to take in the case of a ransomware attack, compared to 37 percent for ages 16-34.<\/p>\n

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