One of the biggest dangers for businesses in terms of breaches is the belief that it won't happen to them, says Reduxio.
Businesses are getting caught up in hype, and are investing in technologies that are punted as being the next `silver bullet', says Telspace Systems.
When it comes to spam, mass volume makes for a numbers game, and fraudsters only need a small percentage of recipients to reply, says X-Force.
The keys were obtained during an investigation with Kaspersky Lab, and shared with No More Ransom.
Last year's four main cyber crime trends all centred on data security and are expected to continue into 2018, say experts.
The company has made a number of changes to better protect access to this type of data by third-party companies.
The damage that could be done by sabotaging a petrol station doesn't bear thinking about, says Kaspersky Lab.
During the last quarter of 2017, DDOS attacks were registered against targets in 84 countries, compared to 98 in Q3, says Kaspersky Lab.
The average company suffers 15 DDOS attacks per year, says A10 Networks.
The median total cost of a ransomware attack in SA is around R1.7 million.
Extortion is growing in popularity among cyber criminals, says Anvee Alderton, channel manager of Trend Micro Southern Africa.