{"id":27986,"date":"2017-03-03T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4024876"},"modified":"2017-03-03T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T18:29:00","slug":"what-is-ransomware-and-how-cloud-security-mitigates-it-cloudexpo-cloud-security-machinelearning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-is-ransomware-and-how-cloud-security-mitigates-it-cloudexpo-cloud-security-machinelearning\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Ransomware and How Cloud Security Mitigates It | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Security #MachineLearning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware attacks escalated dramatically in 2016. In fact, there was a 300 percent increase in ransomware attacks last year, according to the FBI, to an average of 4,000 attacks a day, up from 1,000 ransomware attacks a day in 2015. What\u2019s more, organizations are targeted more frequently than individuals because they generate a much bigger potential payoff. Ransomware has become a profitable criminal enterprise that continues to change and grow. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4024876\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware attacks escalated dramatically in 2016. In fact, there was a 300 percent increase in ransomware attacks last year, according to the FBI, to an average of 4,000 attacks a day, up from 1,000 ransomware attacks a day in 2015. What&rsquo;s more, organizations are targeted more frequently than individuals because they generate a much bigger potential payoff. Ransomware has become a profitable criminal enterprise that continues to change and grow. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4024876\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28103,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986\/revisions\/28103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}