Author: Gabriel Connelly / Source: Vice
For many hackers, the most difficult step isn’t stealing the data but rather finding someone to sell it to. They may be able to take legal documents and family photos off your desktop easily enough, but who’s going to buy those files? Well, you are.
With ransomware, a form of malware that holds your computer data hostage, hackers are making you the customer.
The ransomware model has proven to be devastatingly efficient, especially when hackers target businesses. A study by IBM showed that 70 percent of businesses hit…
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