
It infects the machine, encrypts all files and then demands payment to get the files back. Ransomware is easy to understand but hard to beat. For good reason: Ransomware is cunning, effective, and proliferating, and the cyber security industry hasn’t really had an answer for it. Names like CryptoLocker, CryptoWall, and CTBLocker keep average computer users and IT security Jedis alike up at night. For the last four years, ransomware has evolved into one of the biggest threats to cyber security that I’ve seen in a long time.
