Ransomware has been around since the late 1980s, but it got a massive shot in the arm when leaked NSA cyberweapons were merged with existing strains of ransomware, with new payment mechanisms that used cryptocurrencies, leading to multiple ransomware epidemics that locked up businesses, hospitals, schools, and more (and then there are the state-level cyberattacks that pretend to be ransomware). The boom in ransomware infections is also a boom for companies that provide services to the infected.
Grifty "information Security" Companies Promised They Could Decrypt Ransomware-locked Computers, But They Were Just Quietly Payi
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Thu, 05/16/2019 - 10:57am
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