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A recent Trend Micro report revealed that attacks on business emails and business processes will continue to grow in 2017 because they’re cheap and simple forms of corporate extortion.

“Apps may request admin­istrative privileges to your data, and those privileges could be used by the app later on, or by some malware, to steal your personal information,” says Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer at TrendMicro, a digital security company.

For example, the price of a customizable Crypto Locker executable file is around $50 according to research done by Trend Micro, on top of that, ransomware operators tend to take a 10% cut of the profits made from targets.

Jon Clay, director of Global Threat Communications at Trend Micro, says corporate IT "needs to have visibility into what is occurring within the office—and that can be challenging in the main network, let alone a remote location."

Cabrera, who served 20 years in the United States Secret Service, with a stint as its CISO, and racked up experience leading information security, cyber investigative, and protective programs in support of the Secret Service integrated missions before moving to the private sector, says local skimming operations that physically compromise credit card and financial accounts have been overtaken and outdone by international cybercrimes where attacks on endpoints, networks and cloud