As cybercriminals find new backdoors into our personal digital spaces, it’s important that we continue to adapt and evolve.

Today Unit 42 published its latest paper on ransomware. It has quickly become one of the greatest cyberthreats facing organisations around the world.

"We emphasise that organisations need to be prepared with a strong business continuity plan that features a backup and disaster recovery solution."

“This is the aim – to scare the living daylights out of you."

New Zealand averaged 108 ransomware attacks per day in 2015 according to a new Symantec report, which shows we're an increasing target for cybercrime.

Recently, Palo Alto Networks identified slight changes in Locky detonations through the AutoFocus threat intelligence service.

"The traditional fears of hardware failure and accidental deletion are no longer the sole reasons people fear data loss."

"CryptoWall has been around for less than 5 months and already extorted more than $1 million and caused damage on users who refuse to pay ransom."

A newly discovered fileless ransomware, dubbed PowerWare, is using a Windows scripting tool to encrypt files, with an escalating ransom attached.

A disaster recovery plan is a documented process or set of procedures to recover and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

"With the attack surface dramatically increased and a mature attackers ecosystem, companies have to be ever more vigilant across all their IT assets."

Of late, ransomware threats have been specifically targeting Australian business and consumers, breaching security systems by appearing legitimate.

OS X users have been hit with the first known case of Mac ‘ransomware’ malware, found in the recently released BitTorrent client app Transmission.

“As mobile devices become more and more functional, cybercriminals have become more and more sophisticated at attacks that attempt to steal money."

"Understanding methods of propagation and how to combat ransomware in the case of an infection, is key to limiting your susceptibility to ransomware."

"With the growing use of mobile devices and the valuable data they contain, malware developers are increasingly targeting mobile users."

Hemisphere Technologies has signed an agreement with Trustwave to distribute the company’s Secure Email Gateway (SEG) Cloud service in Australia.

The Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model is still seeing growth in an industry that is rapidly changing every day.

A single cybercrime group may have collected US$325 million from CryptoWall 3 ransomware - but there are ways to help your business keep secure.

There’s no shortage of security issues. Ransomeware on the rise, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is providing rich pickings for cyber crims.

"Ransomware continues to evolve and thrive because it follows a proven business model."

Android ransomware in Australia is on the rise, posing a significant threat to businesses and consumers.

Thousands of Android users have been targeted by a ransomware that demands users to pay $500 to restore access to their smartphone, says Bitdefender.

“Who knew online and mobile ads, over-the-counter transactions, and even basic Word documents could still cause so much trouble.”