Many users in Germany still recall, for example, how in 2017 at the German railway, Deutsche Bahn, the ransom demand from WannaCry was blinking on nearly every display, along with a payment countdown. This reality is manifest in the vast ransomware campaigns from recent years up to this day. And there are more private victims than companies worldwide, as statistics show.
Because even private users are also an easy mark for hackers – provided they pay the ransom for their data in bitcoins. That is the classical attack, as carried out on a massive scale by most large hacker groups. All of them have the singular objective: launching ransomware to encrypt data.Įach of the attacks in the test scenarios is launched via e-mail with an attachment. Ransomware in the Advanced Threat Protection Test.Įach of the 10 attack scenarios has in its attachment either an executable file, files that launch a hidden macro, or scripts. The article on protection solutions for corporate users can be found here: Protection Solutions vs. In another article, readers can also find out just how well corporate security solutions performed in the Advanced Threat Protection test.
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The protection packages came from Bitdefender, BullGuard, G DATA, Malwarebytes, Microsoft, NortonLifeLock, PC Matic, and VIPRE Security. In the latest test, 9 well-known consumer security packages faced off to see how well they offered protection in 10 real-life scenarios against ransomware. 9 protection packages in the Advanced Threat Protection test In order for every reader to relate to the test, all the single steps of an attack per product are spelled out in special MITRE ATT&CK Matrix charts. But what happens when a new variant of malware attacks? Will it be detected, blocked and deleted? Can its execution be totally prevented, or are there perhaps individual files encrypted in the end, as is the case with ransomware, for example? Answers to these questions are found in the latest lab test by AV-TEST, in which each protection package was required to fend off 10 real attack scenarios with ransomware.
Classical security tests demonstrate how well security packages offer protection against ten thousands of Trojans, viruses etc.