While GDPR has been important in making sure that companies look after customer’s data it is providing an opportunity for cyber criminals to further their own agenda.
BlackBerry has found a new trend in the last couple of years with ransomware groups using GDPR to their advantage, threatening to alert data regulators to the fact that victims had been breached, adding additional pressure on the targets to cave to their demands.
Adam Bangle, Vice President EMEA at BlackBerry said that two years ago, few could have predicted that a regulation put in place to make data safer could turn into a tool for blackmail.
