Ideologically motivated hackers have become less likely to destroy data: their share of attacks with malware without ransomware and wipers has increased from 7% to 41%, according to an annual Positive Technologies study.
Encrypted is a virus that penetrates the system, blocks or encrypts user files and demands a ransom for their decryption, Viper is a virus that completely and irreversibly destroys information on the hard drives of an infected computer.
At the same time, such hackers increasingly began to use remote control Trojan horses - software that provides undetected access to the victim's network. In other words, their tactics have begun to converge on those of cyber spies and ransomware. Details are in the RBC material.