Fastest Ransomware Encrypts 100k Files in Four Minutes

Network defenders have just 43 minutes to mitigate ransomware attacks once encryption has begun, a new study from Splunk has warned, Phil Muncaster from Infosecurity reports.

The security monitoring and data analytics vendor evaluated the speed at which 10 ransomware variants encrypt data to compile its report, An Empirically Comparative Analysis of Ransomware Binaries.

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