What Is Ransomware? How It Works, Whether to Pay, and How to Stop It
What is ransomware? Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts the files on your computers and servers so you can’t use them, then demands a payment, usually in cryptocurrency, for the decryption key. Modern ransomware groups also steal your data before encrypting it and threaten to publish it if you don’t pay, which turns an outage […]