2025-08-10
14 分钟Thank you. Hey, What's News listeners, it's Sunday, August 10th.
I'm Kate Bullivant for The Wall Street Journal.
This is What's News Sunday,
the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.
On today's show,
we're going to talk about how a surge in cyber attacks is increasingly hitting small businesses,
the backbone of the US economy.
It comes as the number of overall cyber attacks attacks are ramping up thanks to more sophisticated ransomware and escalating geopolitical tensions with countries such as China and Russia.
In just the past few months, we've reported how Microsoft was hit by,
quote, active attacks targeting its server software,
as well as the U.S. government warning companies to watch
for increased cyber attacks linked to the conflict with Iran.
And while we often hear about how cyber attacks are hitting large businesses,
the impact these attacks are having on mom-and-pop shops can be overlooked.
There are constantly people, you know, trying to do these scams all the time.
It said that they need me to secure my account or I will lose access to it.
I get emotional because this took a huge financial burden on my family and myself.
It was the worst week of my life.
We literally sat there crying and just responding to people for days and days and days.
It felt like an eternity.