Hackers increasingly use phone and email harassment to extort ransom payments

A new report out today from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 finds that ransomware and extortion actors are using more aggressive tactics to pressure organizations, with harassment involved 20 times more often in ransomware attacks than in 2021. The 2023 Unit 42 Ransomware and Extortion Report found that ransomware harassment is typically carried out via […]

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