What’s Ransomware? A Hack That Means Your Money or Your Data

That email promising an all-expenses paid trip to Aruba probably isn’t what it looks like. Many of the suspicious emails that tempt recipients into downloading files, like supposed vacation offers or “urgent” security warnings, include malicious files that hackers use to break into computer networks. That can open the way for a ransomware attack — a kind of hack in which thieves demand a payment, usually in cryptocurrency, in exchange for unlocking the target’s data. When security experts do man

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