‘You’ve infected a computer, locked it down and demanded a ransom. Congratulations, you’re a cybercriminal. The bad news is that you’re doing a terrible job of maximizing profits.<\/p>\n
Ransomware was an estimated $1 billion-per-year<\/a> industry as of 2016, but new research from computing and economics academics at the University of Kent shows that the ‘unsophisticated’ techniques of ransomware criminals could easily be refined and ‘could lead to dramatic increases in profits at relatively little cost.”<\/p>\n This is an excerpt from an article published in\u00a0Cyberscoop<\/a> on research by Kent’s School of Computing<\/a> and\u00a0Dr Edward Cartwright<\/a> and Dr Anna Stepanova<\/a> of the\u00a0School of Economics.<\/p>\n Read the full article here:\u00a0http:\/\/<\/span>ow.ly\/5oeb30aikRg<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n -ENDS-<\/p>\n Press coverage generated by this article:<\/p>\n Interview for SC Media UK: https:\/\/www.scmagazineuk.com\/economic-analysis-reveals-cyber-criminals-make-bad-business-people\/article\/664843\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘You’ve infected a computer, locked it down and demanded a ransom. Congratulations, you’re a cybercriminal. The bad news is that you’re doing a terrible job … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}