Why malware is growing along with the different types of Drives

There are many more drive types available than there have been in the past 15 years. As technology grows, driver types expand, and malware becomes a bigger threat to security and a greater need for data recovery is felt. Following record-breaking losses from hackers stealing sensitive data, businesses and consumers have a deeper understand of how critical it is to have a disaster recovery plan and be more proactive about the threat of data loss.

As the prices for SSD and flash drives continue to fall, these options may cost close to the price of a hard drive. With dozens of different manufacturers and different types of flash and SSD drives, customers today have cheap data storage options available. Some data recovery centres are seeing an increase of 10 percent of customers bringing in their USB flash drives for data recovery.  Given the sophistication of today’s scammers and hacking schemes, it makes sense there is a greater need for data security and data recovery. As new spinning drives components and new drive formats come on the market, data recovery teams may be facing a new type of malware attacks and viruses.

Why malware threats are growing and ultimately costing More

As cyber crime increases, the number of malware also rises. Thanks to a new Trojan horse dubbed “CryptoLocker,” computer users may be paying more to unlock their own data. This virus, discovered in 2013, focuses victims to pay a ransom to have their own computer data unlocked. While some victims have been able to get their data unlocked after the deadline, the amount of the ransom substantially increased. This begs the question whether viruses and malware are becoming more dangerous and expensive overall.

This also is opening new challenges for data recovery experts. They may need to learn new techniques to repair some drives that use more spinning disk components or are filled with helium. This is why trained professionals need to not only have a disaster data recovery plan, but also watch new technologies closely. The only way to stop new emerging threats, is to closely follow their development. Would data recovery specialist benefit from taking classes to learn new emerging threats? It would be a good idea, especially if a data recovery expert wants to build their reputation for recovering data.