Cyber ransom emerging as credible threat: Symantec

Singapore

BEING waylaid for extortion, robbery and even ransom are nightmares usually associated with unsafe neighbourhoods and lonely roads. These are places best avoided, but unfortunately very few people heed the caution when visiting cyber equivalents of unsafe neighbourhoods when they travel on the information highway of the Internet.

As a result, as a study by cybersecurity provider, Symantec, puts it, never …