KnowBe4 - Varieties of Extortion Experience

We are all familiar with ransomware and its increasingly dangerous cousin, wiper malware. The first encrypts your files and demands ransom payments in exchange for the decryption key. The second, now being mixed with ransomware proper, is more destructive. As its name implies, it wipes files, deletes them permanently.



from KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Blog https://blog.knowbe4.com/varieties-of-extortion-experience

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