Ransomware-as-a-Service market expands beyond Affiliates to ‘Elite’ programs, Kaspersky Lab report says. The number of people who encountered ransomware grew more than 11 percent to 2.6 million from April 2016 to March 2017. The report is based on ransomware strains encountered by users of its security products during that 12-month period. In May, for example, WannaCry demonstrated how marrying a worm – capable of targeting a widespread bug – with ransomware could lead to an unexpectedly rapid outbreak.”]
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