Between June 2020 and June 2021, the transportation industry witnessed a 186% increase in weekly ransomware attacks. As such, it is even more imperative that transit operators treat cybersecurity with the same seriousness as physical operational security. CYBERATTACKS ARE OCCURRING at an alarming rate across the U.S. and throughout the world. Ransomware attacks have targeted every industry, businesses of all sizes, government agencies, and individuals - no one is immune. In 2020, the FBI received more than 791,790 complaints to its Internet Crime Complaint Center about suspected internet crime, an increase of more than 300,000 cases from 2019. Many cyber experts fear that this reported number is far smaller than the number of actual attacks, as numerous ransomware attacks go unreported and/or are not discovered for weeks or months.
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