With recent cyberattacks such as JBS Foods or the Colonial Pipeline, experts say Ransom attacks don’t have to always be motivated by a desire to collect ransom, according to Waterfall Security Solutions CEO and co-founder Lior Frenkel, whose firm offers one-way connectivity that he says makes certain types of external intrusions impossible: “The fact that there is an attack, the fact that operations were impaired, even the fact that there was a ransom request – doesn’t mean for 100% that this is a ransom attack,” he said. “It might be a terror attack in this case.”

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