2020: The year in malware
Summary: Cisco Talos' year-in-review states that 2020's shift to remote work, online learning and strained health care systems gave adversaries an opening, producing a huge spike in ransomware attacks and headlines of companies spending millions of dollars to recover their data. The recap also notes the presidential election brought its own set of security challenges, and the post compiles the major malware and security news Talos covered that year.
Bottom line: Talos ties the year's ransomware surge directly to employees taking sensitive data home onto personal networks, and the recovery bills ran into the millions of dollars for the companies hit.
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