{"id":978740,"date":"2025-12-05T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978740"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:13:23","slug":"half-of-manufacturers-now-stop-ransomware-before-encryption-sophos-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/half-of-manufacturers-now-stop-ransomware-before-encryption-sophos-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of manufacturers now stop ransomware before encryption, Sophos reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing companies are stopping more ransomware attacks before encryption occurs, but cybercriminals are responding by increasingly stealing data and resorting to extortion-only tactics, according to a new Sophos report.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that only 40% of attacks on manufacturers resulted in data encryption\u2014the lowest level in five years and a sharp drop from 74% last year. However, this defensive progress comes with a caveat: extortion-only attacks surged to 10% from just 3% in 2024, as attackers pivot their strategies to maintain leverage over victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing companies are stopping more ransomware attacks before encryption occurs, but cybercriminals are responding by increasingly stealing data and resorting to extortion-only tactics, according to a new Sophos report. The study found that only 40% of attacks on manufacturers resulted in data encryption\u2014the lowest level in five years and a sharp drop from 74% last year. However, this defensive progress comes with a caveat: extortion-only attacks surged to 10% from just 3% in 2024, as attackers pivot their strategies to maintain leverage over victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}