Ransomware as a Data Breach Decoy
Gone are the days of small-time cybercriminals using ransomware to earn a quick buck. Ransomware--and the criminals who use it--have certainly evolved. Though it initially made a name for itself as a tactic of the lesser-skilled criminal, malicious actors are now exploiting the established expectations of its impact and limitations in order to hide inside a network. For those organizations with robust security strategies, ransomware had become little more than an annoyance. They were able to recover rather quickly using backups. More often, though, that’s not the case. In the past...
