Here are three things to know:
1. During the quarter, the average downtime a ransomware attack caused jumped from 9.6 days to 12.1 days. This was due to the increased number of successful attacks against large organizations.
2. For companies that decided to pay the ransom, 98 percent received working decryption tools. From there, 94 percent of organizations were able to recover the encrypted data.
3. Healthcare organizations accounted for 12.8 percent of the ransomware attacks.
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