{"id":56014,"date":"2024-05-08T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ten-years-since-the-first-corp-ransomware-mikko-hypponen-sees-no-end-in-sight\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:31:15","slug":"ten-years-since-the-first-corp-ransomware-mikko-hypponen-sees-no-end-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ten-years-since-the-first-corp-ransomware-mikko-hypponen-sees-no-end-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hypp\u00f6nen sees no end in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview<\/span> This year is an unfortunate anniversary for information security: We’re told it’s a decade since ransomware started infecting corporations.<\/p>\n

Extortionists had been hitting normal folk in the early 2010s with file-scrambling malware. Eventually criminals figured out that there was much more money to be made hitting business networks and demanding big bucks. Since then, attacks have soared, show no sign of letting up, and the computer security industry still hasn’t found a full and final fix.<\/p>\n

Mikko Hypp\u00f6nen, chief research officer at WithSecure and all-round infosec industry veteran, will give a keynote talk<\/a> at the RSA Conference in San Francisco today on just this topic \u2013 and he’s not optimistic. Growth in both the number of attacks and the value of Bitcoin has created criminal unicorns with net worth in the billions, as he explains in the video below.<\/p>\n