Ransomware groups take extortion tactics to new heights in attacks against hospitals, schools

While the education and healthcare sectors have been regular targets of ransomware, experts say recent incidents are reflecting increasingly aggressive extortion tactics as well as a more heightened – and crueler – focus on exploiting weak or vulnerable groups as a means of upping the pressure on organizations to pay.

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