"To an organization, nothing is more disruptive than falling victim to a ransomware attack. A successful attack means that the organization's files are forcibly encrypted and their business grinds to a halt until they pay a ransom or restore a backup. That's bad for profits if you're running a factory that manufactures widgets, but ransomware can kill people if the target is a hospital or healthcare system -- and there were more than 1,000 such attacks against healthcare providers in the U.S. alone between 2010 and 2024."
"Recovering from a ransomware attack is possible if an organization has good backups, but that's a time-consuming process. It's also expensive, with the typical cost of a ransomware incident measured in the millions of dollars. It's much more effective to stop the malicious code before it can corrupt the organization's files and render them unusable. That's the goal of a new feature that Google announced today for enterprise customers using its Google Drive cloud storage products with Google Workspace."
Ransomware attacks forcibly encrypt organizational files and halt operations until ransom payment or backup restoration. Hospitals face life-threatening consequences, with over 1,000 attacks on US healthcare providers from 2010–2024. Recovery via backups is possible but slow and costly, often costing millions. Preventing malicious code from corrupting files is more effective than recovery. Google added an AI-powered ransomware detection feature to Drive for desktop on Windows and macOS that automatically pauses sync when it detects ransomware-like activity and stops syncing encrypted files. Google trained the model on millions of real-world ransomware samples from its VirusTotal database. The feature is beta and free for commercial Workspace customers.
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