The Anti-virus Times

Friday, May 25, 2018

More often than not, economic fluctuations, rather than employers, are responsible for drops in employees' real income and purchasing power. But the need to cut back on spending often gives rise to hatred toward… companies that supposedly do not value their employees' work highly enough. The solution seems obvious: if your salary isn't high enough, turn to a company that will offer you more. But in our hi-tech era, some people choose the hollow path of digital sabotage.

As revenge acts, disgruntled employees often opt to engage in digital sabotage: they infect corporate computers and leak, steal, or corrupt data.

However, low salaries or bleak career prospects serve as sufficient motive only in 13% of cases involving revenge.

Dismissal from a job can also trigger an attack on a company's digital assets.

Dismissals provoke revenge in 47% of the incidents.

Conflicts with other employees (including former staff members) serve as a motive in 20% of the cases.

A grudge makes people seek revenge. But by doing so, they also damage their company’s assets, which can be punishable by law—but who thinks about consequences when their soul is hungering for revenge?

Conflict — 20%; Dismissal — 47%; Other — 20%; No promotion — 13%;

Unpleasant incidents precede sabotage in 92% of the cases.

Regardless of the cause for revenge, sabotage is rarely spontaneous. Indeed, revenge is a dish best served cold. Other people are aware of the sabotage plans in 31% of the incidents: colleagues account for 64% of them, 24% are friends and family members, and accomplices account for 14%.

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