The U.S. Treasury Department estimates that U.S. companies have paid $1.6 billion in ransomware attacks since 2011. Given the lucrative nature of ransomware attacks, the threat shows no signs of diminishing.
In fact, the ransomware threat is constantly changing and evolving as attackers use more and more sophisticated techniques and vulnerabilities to gain access to organizations' data and networks.
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