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Ransomware is a lethal kind of Malware that Encrypts your harddrive(s) and holds them hostage, providing the decryption key if you pay the hostage-taker(s) money (well-known variants are the FBI Virus and the Police Virus).

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Why are ransom attacks successful?

I just read that "ransom" attacks are on the rise - where the attacker uses a vulnerability to enable them to encrypt files and demand money for the key. Why is this any different to a disk failure, …
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