More than half of Australian businesses were attacked by hackers

A recent report showed that in the past 1 year only half of businesses in Australia were attacked by hackers.
A new report released by a company specializing in cybersecurity Mimecast said that 64% of local businesses in Australia were attacked by hackers with malware last year alone, a 48% increase from the previous year. years earlier. This fact happened when in the last year, because of the Covid-19 translation, many companies switched to working online

Experts say that in each attack, typically hackers will attack networks or systems, steal personal or sensitive information and then demand ransom to return or unlock them. that information. Although experts say that companies should not pay a ransom to hackers because this action helps to foster legal violations, according to Mimecast statistics, 54% of the companies have paid the ransom. Of these, 76% of the companies got their data back, while 24% couldn’t get it back. Prior to this report, since last year, many entities including major Australian companies have reported being attacked by hackers. The recent victim is Nine Network Television, which makes some programs unable to broadcast as usual. Previously, the Australian National Assembly’s computer network was also attacked a number of times. In response to this situation, Australia’s Cybersecurity Center issued recommendations and procedures to instruct entities on how to secure cyber security. At the same time, experts believe that regular software updates as well as the use of multi-factor authentication are also useful measures for security in a cyberspace environment./.