Report: 53% of Organisations’s Data Attacked in 12 Months
Sophos, a cybersecurity firm has said about 53 per cent of organisation’s data in Nigeria, suffered cyber-attacks in the last 12 months.
According to the report, “Globally Data was encrypted in nearly three quarters, which is about 73 per cent of attacks that successfully breached an organisation, while in Nigeria, it was 74 per cent. The report explained that the state of ransomware attack in 2020, revealed that paying cybercriminals to restore data encrypted during a ransomware attack would not be an easy and inexpensive path to recovery, stressing that the total cost of recovery almost doubles when organisations pay a ransom.
More than one quarter, about 27 per cent of organisations hit by ransomware admitted paying the ransom. The survey also revealed that 38 per cent of the organisations that were attacked in Nigeria admitted to paying the ransom.
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