Key Facts

With more and more criminals flocking to ransomware as a source of cheap and easy income, ransomware authors have scrambled to meet the demand. According to TrendMicro, 50 new ransomware families were discovered in the first five months of 2016. That’s easily on pace to surpass the 100 new ransomware families that Symantec says were discovered in 2015.”

Emails with malicious links and malicious attachments account for 59% of ransomware infections. According to the Osterman Research survey, users are more than twice as likely to be infected by clicking something in an email than visiting an infected website."