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On the Taxonomy and Evolution of Ransomware

Not all ransomware is the same! Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, discusses the different species of this growing scourge. The general idea is to encrypt the victims data and promise to deliver the key needed to decrypt it in return for a paid ransom. But there are very different types of attacks which are all called ransomware Let s start by dissecting them: Commodity Ransomware, human-operated and human-operated.

Source: https://threatpost.com/taxonomy-evolution-ransomware/166462/

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