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The number of reported ransomware attacks worldwide in 2024 was 5,289, up by 15 percent from 2023, according to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
But those figures do not include the vast majority of attacks, which were not reported, according to Andy Jenkinson, fellow at the Cyber Theory Institute and author of the book “Stuxnet to Sunburst: 20 Years of Digital Exploitation and Cyber Warfare.”
“America suffers around 70 to 80 percent of the world’s cyberattacks,” Jenkinson said. “They are the most reliant country in the world on digital communications for everything, from where you pump your gas in the morning, from when you switch your lights on, everything relies on digital communications through industrial control systems.”
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