--- title: "Ransomware Attacks Are Costly And Difficult To Recover From | DuoCircle" description: "A typical ransomware attack attempts to access corporate data or systems, block authorized access to them." image: "https://www.duocircle.com/images/og-default.png" canonical: "https://www.duocircle.com/blog/email-security/ransomware-attacks-are-costly-and-difficult-to-recover-from/" --- Quick Answer A ransomware attack accesses or encrypts corporate data and holds it hostage until payment. The delivery vector is overwhelmingly email: malicious URLs and weaponized attachments arriving via phishing, spear-phishing, or whaling. Detection therefore depends on email-layer scanning that catches the payload before the user clicks. DuoCircle's Advanced Threat Defense Suite combines spam protection (99% of inbound spam removed, false-positive rate under 0.0001%), zero-day malware protection, domain-name spoofing detection, malicious attachment blocking, real-time activity logs with click reporting, Smart Adaptive Quarantine, a 30-day MX backup queue, and 24/7 support. Coverage is unlimited users and unlimited inbound message volume, priced by company size rather than message count. 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This is a violent form of attack on a corporation: the trend is growing in popularity and the threats are becoming more and more sophisticated. Malicious URLs that deliver ransomware payloads or weaponized attachments are the usual method by which hackers attempt to exploit the perimeter defenses and to hold an organization’s data for ransom. These typically arrive in an email during a phishing, spear phishing, or whaling attempt. Ransomware detection therefore depends on the ability to scan email for malware delivered either by clicking on a suspicious link or within a malicious attachment. Such detection can then protect employees and the corporation as a whole from the consequences of initiating a ransomware attack. [![Ransomware](https://media.mailhop.org/duocircle/images/2018/07/spf-record-check-3586.jpg)](https://media.mailhop.org/duocircle/images/2018/07/spf-record-check-3586.jpg) ### DuoCircle Detects And Eliminates Ransomware Historically ransomware used to be part of mass email campaigns but more and more emails are using a phishing or trusted party attack of some form. These threats are probing your corporate infrastructure, but rather than attacking it directly at the front door, they make use of your employees and social engineering to exploit your company. Traditional spam filtering techniques can only go so far, and when such techniques fail, your company remains at risk. To combat this, DuoCircle has introduced the Advanced Threat Defense Suite: a layered approach to email security [Advanced Threat Defense](/advanced-threat-defense/) pulls all the features you need together in a single integrated solution to fight malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks. _With Advanced Threat Defense, DuoCircle protects your employees (and your entire enterprise) from spam, malware, ransomware, phishing, and malicious attachments_. Our sophisticated classification engine detects and defends your entire organization against these threats in real-time, and with the highest possible level of accuracy. ### Protect Against Malware Attacks with DuoCircle’s Advanced Threat Defense Suite DuoCircle is an industry-leading provider of secure cloud-based email services. As an additional level of front-line protection, DuoCircle also offers the Advanced Threat Defense Suite. This powerful suite of tools and systems offers end to end protection against threats, including the ever-increasing threat of ransomware. Email-borne attacks include ransomware, phishing, malware, and more, and they are becoming more common and more sophisticated every day. DuoCircle’s Advanced Threat Defense pulls together all the tools your organization needs in a single integrated solution to protect and defend your employees from these threats. [![e-mail security solution](https://media.mailhop.org/duocircle/images/2018/07/sender-policy-framework-5834.jpg)](https://media.mailhop.org/duocircle/images/2018/07/sender-policy-framework-5834.jpg) Using an intelligent classification engine, our e-mail security solution detects these threats in real-time and defend against them with the highest possible level of accuracy. Ransomware is stopped in its tracks before it can wreak havoc on your network. ### Advanced Threat Defense from DuoCircle provides: - 100% protection from malware and zero-day attacks, with 100% availability. - Cloud spam protection that eliminates 99% of all incoming spam with a false positive rate of less than one in ten thousand. - Unlimited users and unlimited inbound message volume - Protection against domain name spoofing - Blocking of malicious attachments. - Real-time activity logs, with access to the email queue and click reporting - _**Smart Adaptive Quarantine**_, which puts the burden of sorting spam messages on the sender rather than the recipient. - **_A thirty day backup queue_**, 30 days of MX backup service included - Chat, email and phone support is available 24/7 ![Brad Slavin](https://media.mailhop.org/dmarcreport/images/team/brad-slavin.jpg) Brad Slavin General Manager General Manager at DuoCircle. Product strategy and commercial lead across the email security portfolio. ## Secure your email infrastructure Protect, authenticate, and deliver. Contact our team to find the right solution. 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