ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – Earlier this week, a Virginia legislative branch agency was hit with a ransomware attack.
These are unfortunately becoming more common, from the government to the Colonial Pipeline.
We spoke with local experts on ways you can protect yourself and your workplace as cybercriminals are getting smarter, and richer.
“In 2020 there was almost a trillion dollars in losses. That’s up from 500 billion in 2018. The average disruption takes a business offline for 18 hours. These aren’t always successful in getting paid, but they’re almost always successful in disrupting a business,” explains Eric Thompson, a Director with Advanced Logic Industries. “The average disruption per business costs about $750k.”
“Every company should assume they’re going to be hacked,” says Dr. Aaron Brantly, a professor at Virginia Tech and the Director of the Tech for Humanity Lab. He describes hacking an organization as an…
