How Valuable a Target Is an Aggregates Operation to Cybercriminals?

摘要

Many in the cybersecurity field used to lambast salespeople selling cybersecurity tools that said, "Everyone is a target." The problem is that cybercriminals have figured out an important new angle to their business model: companies that don't have information that is valuable on the black market still have information that's valuable to the company itself. The bad guys are finding a way into a company, encrypting as much data as possible, and then extorting money from you to get your own data back. And aggregates operations are not immune.