On Tuesday 18 September, Europol published its annual assessment of current and future cybercrime threats. Prevailing trends involve the following: cyber-attacks by way of ‘ransomware’.
Ransomware consists of stealing confidential information from companies or users' data by way of malware software applications as a means to extort money in exchange for recovering the stolen data.
According to Europol this kind of software has become a standard cybercrime tool. The report emphasises that...