Ransomware is a practice that is mostly used by ha-cker or criminals to access someone’s computer and encrypt the personal data on that computer. The user cannot decrypt the data until he pays those criminals.
In the world, cybersecurity is one of the major concerns not only for organizations but also individuals to protect their identity and data online. However, ha-ckers and criminals try to breach the security and access the system. They have different purposes or goals to access the system and steal the data. Mostly, these criminals encrypt the user’s data and ask money against decryption of that data. This practice is called ransomware.
Ransomware is an evolving form of malware. In this form, the ha-ckers or criminals, mostly threaten the owner of the system to publicize the data, in case of not paying the amount that they are asking for. Some ransomware destroy the data, while some lock the data ( encrypt the data) and ask for money to unlock it ( decrypt the data).
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