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Ransomware: How Hackers Make You Pay
2017 • E15 Aug 21, 2017 3m
For many hackers, the most difficult step isn’t stealing the data but rather finding someone to sell it to. They may be able to take legal documents and family photos off your desktop easily enough, but who’s going to buy those files? Well, you are. With ransomware, a form of malware that holds your computer data hostage, hackers are making you the customer.