
Cyber Attack Trends: Mid-Year Report

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Looking back at the first half of 2017, the word ransomware is probably one of the first that come to mind, courtesy of WannaCry and the more recent Petya attacks that dominated the news headlines. Indeed, according to our data, more than 50% of cyber-attacks in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East were ransomware, […]
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