According to an analysis by Trend Micro security experts, Italy is one of the countries in the world most affected by ransomware attacks. In January, our country was the third for number of attacks, with 4.84% of the total of 785,000.
Italy is preceded only by the United States (31.60%) and France (5.94%) and is on a par with India (4.83%). In February, the Italian percentage dropped slightly, to 3.55% out of 1,184,000 ransomware attacks globally, preceded by the United States (24.81%), Turkey (9.76%), Japan (8.96%) ), Russia (5.98%), India (4.63%) and the Netherlands (3.82%). Just a few weeks ago, part of the computer network of RFI, a company of the State Railways group that deals with infrastructures, was hit by a ransomware that had blocked self-service machines and ticket offices in the stations. But the cases are starting to be many: last September, a ransomware blocked the computer system of the San Giovanni Hospital in Rome while a month later it was the turn of Siae and the historic snack manufacturer, San Carlo.
Trend Micro’s research shows that the sectors most affected by ransomware in Italy are manufacturing, public administration and financial services. As for malware, in the months of January and February Italy was hit by over 17 billion total attacks (17,707,911). The data is the result of analysis by the Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro’s global intelligence network that identifies and analyzes threats and constantly updates the online database of cyber incidents.
The Smart Protection Network is made up of over 250 million sensors and blocks an average of 65 billion threats per year.
In 2021, the activity hit a record 94 billion stopped attacks.
Source: Ansa
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