Jessica Lyons reports:
Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands.
According to a survey of 1,500 security and IT professionals conducted by Censuswide on behalf of security firm Semperis, digital intruders are still holding more traditional threats of system lockouts (52 percent) and data destruction (63 percent) over their victims’ heads.
However, almost half (47 percent) of those surveyed across industries and geographies also reported that attackers have threatened to file regulatory complaints against them along the lines of ALPHV’s SEC complaint against fintech firm MeridianLink for failing to notify the American financial regulator of a significant security breach.
More worrisome, however, is that 40 percent of respondents reported receiving physical threats from the miscreants.
Read more at The Register.