This is reported by the news agency Reuters.

Currently, insurance companies are trying to understand how much they can be affected by losses with cybercrime.

However, all of them are experiencing difficulties due to the lack of historical data.

Note that such economic costs from cyberattacks usually include interrupting the operation of companies and repairing computers.

For example, the damage from the WannaCry virus, which in May attacked computers in more than 100 countries, was $ 8 billion. In turn, the damage from the Petya virus is about 850 million dollars.

At the same time, the average economic losses caused by such a violation can range from $ 4.

6 billion to $ 53 billion for major extreme events.

Also, the authors of the report emphasize that it is difficult to accurately predict the amount of losses and they can reach $ 121 billion.

Thus, the probable losses from the attack in the second scenario could amount to $ 28.7 billion.

Recall, as previously reported, "URA-Inform", from the actions of cybercriminals during the cyber attack, which was made in Ukraine last week, suffered a third of Ukrainian banks.