https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ucsf-pays-114m-ransomware-fee/
Exploit: Ransomware
University of California San Francisco: Education and Research Institution
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Ransomware is a growing menace to every organization, and it’s not just sensitive business or financial data that Dark Web criminals are after. Research data has become an increasingly hot commodity. Paying ransoms to cybercriminals to decrypt research data sets a dangerous precedent. Collecting large sums will embolden other groups that can take down big fish to score big paydays.
Risk Levels:
1 - 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 - 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 - 3 = Moderate Risk
*The risk score is calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.