The stories dribble in weekly, sometimes more frequently; tales of yet another company crippled by ransomware. The servers and desktops of a law firm, a shipping company, a steel mill or a forensic test centre rendered unusable, because malware has found its way into their network and spawned – shutting down systems with a simple message: your money or your network’s life.
It is not so much a kidnapping as a 21st century highway robbery, and bandits scan the virtual highways of the internet like...
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