Most Businesses Pay Off Ransomware Attackers, IBM Study Finds.

The article describes how an IBM Security study has revealed that businesses affected by ransomware are willing to pay to get data back. Ransomware is typically delivered to victims as an email attachment. Over the course of 2016, IBM X-Force observed a massive increase in the volume of spam emails that contained ransomware attachments, growing to nearly 40 percent in 2016 from 0.6 percent in 2015.