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McAfee Enterprise & FireEye 2022 Threat Predictions

McAfee

Ransomware, nation states, social media and the shifting reliance on a remote workforce made headlines in 2021. After all, it does demand a level of research to “hook” the target into interactions and establishing fake profiles are more work than simply finding an open relay somewhere on the internet. Game of Ransomware Thrones.

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The story of the year: ransomware in the headlines

SecureList

In the past twelve months, the word “ransomware” has popped up in countless headlines worldwide across both print and digital publications: The Wall Street Journal , the BBC , the New York Times. That is precisely why we have chosen ransomware as our story of the year for Kaspersky’s annual Security Bulletin.