Many people are now working from home and opting to use a personal computer to get work done. This is making the challenge of controlling and managing your organisations data near impossible. With data now sprawling across company and personal devices, there is no control over it, especially when it is sold on to its next home.

Organizations in Middle East increase their use of cloud, it’s clear they prefer encryption solutions that support cloud deployments and want to control keys used for data at rest encryption in cloud.

Cybereason discovered PortDoor while tracking recent developments in the RoyalRoad weaponizer, also known as the 8.t Dropper/RTF exploit builder. Over the years, this tool has become a part of the arsenal of several Chinese-related threat actors.

The average ransom paid is $170,404. The global findings also show that only 8% of organizations managed to get back all of their data after paying a ransom, with 29% getting back no more than half of their data.

The shift to largely remote business environments meant adding new applications to the IT stack, securing new endpoints, and shifting legacy technologies to the cloud when possible.