A Beginner's Guide on Ransomware: How To Identify and Prevent Attacks

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that threatens to release or block access to data or a computer system by encryption until the victim pays a ransom fee in cryptocurrency tokens or fiat money. Usually, there is a fixed deadline for payment of the ransom. If the deadline is not met, the data may be released or the ransom fee may be increased. The worst result of a ransomware attack is the data loss that occurs: hackers can encrypt …

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