![]() ![]() While there are major headlines of large-scale attacks on massive 10k+ employee companies with seven figure ransom demands, these are few and far between comparatively. This certainly does look like an obvious and very unsettling trend.īad actors do seem to have finally found their sweet spot of small to medium sized business (SMB) targets. While this may sound like a good trend in the short term, if we look back to last year's nastiest malware writeup, “ The good news (I guess) is that last year’s average ransom payment of $200,000 was its peak, and today’s average is just below $150,000.” Looking back even further to this time in 2019 the average ransom payment was below $40,000. The peak average ransom payment was above $300,000 earlier this year, it looks to have leveled off to around $225,000 now. Ransom payments have also been increasing at a much higher rate than inflation. As a result, many organizations are shifting from relying on cyber insurance policies to increasing the strength of their layered defenses in order to be more resilient against ransomware attacks. Some groups will threaten to leak data even if the victim attempts to work with ransom negotiation services that are typically included in cybersecurity insurance. Every major ransomware campaign has been utilizing a Tor leak site for data exfiltrated with the intention of publishing the data in the most embarrassing and damaging way if the ransom is not paid. The ransomware double extortion tactic continues to be a match made in heaven for criminals and absolute hell for victims. If you’ve seen our writeup of Blackhat 2022, the keynote speakers noted that in 25 years of doing hacking conferences, we still don’t have a handle on what’s going on, and the surface area of attack is only growing so we all expect it to get worse. This absolutely accelerated into overdrive the past 9 years with the mainstream adoption of ransomware payloads and cryptocurrency facilitating payments. ![]() The infosec industry continues the struggle of the perpetual cat and mouse game tactics that haven’t really stopped since cybercriminals first started decades ago. With 2023 around the corner, we’ve seen yet another eventful year for the threat landscape and malware continues to be center stage in the threats posed towards individuals, businesses, and governments. ![]() Webroot® Legacy Products (2011 and Prior) 33.Webroot® SecureAnywhere™ - Antivirus for PC Gamers 553.Webroot® Security Awareness Training 54.Webroot® Business Endpoint Protection 1130.Webroot Mobile Security for Android 937.Webroot® Consumer/Business - for Macs 369.Webroot® SecureAnywhere™ - Complete 3822.Webroot® SecureAnywhere™ - Internet Security Plus 2467.Webroot® SecureAnywhere™ - Antivirus 6971.Some users report that Webroot missed threats to their computers. To determine Webroot’s overall effectiveness, we need to see what real users are reporting. Webroot’s wait-and-see approach gives it potentially artificially low scores. Most antivirus programs zap potential problems right away. If it thinks it’s malicious, it gets rid of it and any changes it made to your device. After Webroots analyzes the program’s actions, it determines if the program is malicious. It monitors new programs that it doesn’t recognize, making sure that the program doesn’t execute anything that may cause permanent damage to your computer. Webroot SecureAnywhere internet security now has a protection system that isn’t compatible with most independent testing. That AV-Test review was done back in 2019, and they haven’t done another one. It did much worse on zero-day attacks and internet threats, catching only 66.5%. Most of its competitors tested at around 99% or higher, so Webroot could be better. Webroot VPN protection is sold separately.Ī test by independent testers AV-Test found that Webroot detected 98.9% of malware. Webroot also lacks email scanning capabilities and VPN protection. While it’s not a common thing to include in antivirus software, for the price, we expected it. That’s one of the more expensive plans we’ve seen from top antivirus product companies.Įven with all these features, Webroot misses out on one that competitors like Norton 360 didn’t overlook: parental controls. To get identity protection, credit checks, and reimbursement coverage, you need to pay for the Premium plan, which runs around $80 per year. ![]() Of course, the more features you get (and the more devices you want to protect), the more expensive Webroot becomes.
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