Not long ago, the maya digemparkan of the universe by mass of siber attack WannaCry and Petya. Patterned siber crime money is called La Villa d'o will still be done by hackers in the future.
Sinamo Surung, Country Director of the Palo Alto Networks Indonesia revealed that the trend of ransomware attack will be more often with more variants. This is because such an attack is a business opportunity with relatively cheap capital for the community of hackers.
"Then talk to the future, we believe the frequency will be more and more and will also increasingly diverse variants. There are many new variants. Because of these malware attacks could so something seems to be advantageous for the culprit, we see this will motivate them to increasingly intense making new variant, "bright Surung to awakmedia Central Senayan II, Central Jakarta, Friday (13/7)
Ransomware attack done by hackers with "hostage" data from victims. This malware blocks access to your computer or data that exists on the device. The victim must pay some money to get back the access.
Previously, the WannaCry or the WannaCrypt successfully attacked more than 230,000 computers in more than 150 countries. Petya also spread quickly through the network computer that uses Windows.
Although many parties have banned the victims to pay, Palo Alto believes there are still many also benefit from hackers penyaderaan business data. Therefore, ransomware is still viewed as the business section by hackers.
"These Hackers would still be motivated to do more attacks. His sample may be more and more so they can raise money more easily because there is always that pay. WannaCry experience that pretty much paid for. For the perpetrators of the attack on the capital to do it so cheap it is very profitable, "he said.
To fortify themselves from these attacks, Palo Alto said that security solutions is a very important thing. The solution would be better if able to ward off the attack, not the start of protection after the attack is detected.
"Need it once a security solution that can answer this problem. Because if the solution simply by virtue of the signature, then when there's a new variant will occur because his signature bridge there yet, "he added.
Palo Alto itself relies on three solutions such as Next-Generation firewalls, Intelligent Threat Cloud and Advanced Endpoint Protection. The platform is called being able to offer solid visibility and control against applications, users, and content as well as embed the formidable protection against known and unknown cyberthreat.
Not only that, these platforms also claimed was able to trim the time in managingnetwork security up to half of it so that IT can be more security staff focus in terms of development and other services from the company.
Mere information, Palo Alto is the security company of origin United States that stood since 2005. The solution has been used tens of thousands of companies in the world, including most recently the BANKING SERVICES in Indonesia.