The scale of damage from a new cyberattack could exceed $ 120 billion, experts warn Lloyd's of London. This is more than the most destructive hurricane in history.

Hackers can strike, from which the world will not be able to recover. For example, by depriving the company of access to information stored in "cloud" data warehouses, they will provoke a loss of $ 120 billion or more.

If before the worst and most devastating was considered to be the impact of the elements - for example, the damage from hurricane Sandy, which hit the US and neighboring countries in 2012. , Amounted to $ 70 billion, from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. $ 108 billion. - now cyber-attack threatens much more losses. To such conclusions experts of the world's oldest insurance market Lloyd`s of London.

And such incidents are highly anticipated, experts regretfully state.. In their opinion, now for hackers the most advantageous is to strike at the provider of "cloud" service. Having brought down only one large virtual storehouse, they will deprive the companies holding there data, not less than $ 4.6 billion in aggregate. If the collapse will affect several such services, the damage from cyber attacks will go to tens of billions. And the size of global economic losses will depend on how long hackers will be able to withstand anti-virus development. At the same time, reminded in Lloyd's of London, insurance will not cover a large - 83-93% of the losses caused by cybercriminals.

Foresee in Lloyd's of London and the second scenario of global hacker attacks. If cyberware owners get information about a vulnerability in one of the most popular operating systems, then a wave of attacks on computer networks and even home PCs will sweep around the world. Suffice it to recall the events in May 2017. Then the virus WannaCry for a few days spread to 150 countries and blocked about 300 thousand. Computers. For the restoration of access hackers demanded a ransom.

According to the calculations of American specialists, the total damage was $ 1 billion.

At the end of June, a new Petya virus attacked the world. A, which acted according to a similar scheme. Many Ukrainian companies became victims of it, as well as Rosneft and Bashneft,. However, specialists quickly coped with this problem. This led experts to believe that the purpose of this hacker attack was not to cause damage, but to identify vulnerabilities in the company's defense systems for planning a larger-scale strike.