Businesses across four countries, including the UK, are increasingly losing revenue as a result of cyber-attacks, according to a new study.<\/p>\n
Research from IT security group Malwarebytes<\/em> found that, in the past year, 40 per cent of businesses had been targeted by so-called \u2018ransomware\u2019 \u2013 a form of malicious computer software which will block access to networks unless a \u2018ransom\u2019, or sum of money, is promptly paid.<\/p>\n Of four countries surveyed, Britain was among the worst hit \u2013 with 57 per cent of British businesses reporting such an attack.<\/p>\n The research found that more than half of businesses hit by cyber-attacks in the UK are likely to eventually pay up.<\/p>\n Furthermore, a fifth of British companies targeted by such attacks told Malwarebytes<\/em> that each attack cost them around \u00a37,500 to unlock their computer networks and access their files.<\/p>\n A Malwarebytes<\/em> spokesperson said: \u201c[In Britain] infections tend to be more widespread\u2026 than they are in other nations, and ransomware had much more of an impact on the ability of UK-based organisations in terms of their loss of revenue resulting from the attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n British businesses are strongly advised to back-up their files and take virus protection and IT security precautions to reduce their chances of falling victim to an attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Businesses across four countries, including the UK, are increasingly losing revenue as a result of cyber-attacks, according to a new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}