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Ransomware attacks likely to cause more than $5 billion of damage: Report

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A report by U.S.-based cloud business applications firm Intermedia.net Inc. said that ransomware attacks are likely to cause more than $5 billion worth of damage to businesses across the world this year, Top Tech News reported. The report found that businesses pay an average of $1,400 to rescue their IT systems from ransomware attacks. Nearly 60% of respondents said that they had personally paid a ransom in work-related IT threats, while 37% said that their employers had paid ransoms. 

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