Number of U.S. citizens targeted by ransomware growing
Bitdefender, an antivirus software company, revealed in a white paper that ransomware caused $350 million in damage in 2015. The whitepaper also explained that 4.1 percent of U.S. Internet users have been targeted by extortion-based malware. Of the targeted U.S. population, more than 50 percent paid hackers to release the extorted data. Of the interviewed…