SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - When it comes to cybersecurity, there are different threats to hack your network for personal information, like malware, phishing, and ransomware.

However, when it comes to safety, experts advise being better prepared than the next person on the attack list.

“Some leak has happened, and your name shows up. They will try to hit you. If they can’t get anywhere in a very short amount of time, they are going to move on to the next person, because that leak had two billion names in there, and they have to go through everyone,” said IT support specialist Rohit Utkarsh for ACIS IT Solutions.

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts by 2031, a business or consumer will be targeted with a ransomware attack every 2 seconds. For comparison, in 2021, those attacks happened every 11

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