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Understanding the Real Threat of Ransomware

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Cyber extortion through digital means is nothing new, says U.K.-based cybersecurity expert John Walker, but the concerning aspect of today’s ransomware attacks is that they are “low-cost in the macro sense and so easy to achieve.”

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