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How ransomware is going manual to target victims [Q&A]

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The ransomware attacks that make the news are the ones like WannaCry and NotPetya that spread rapidly and affect many businesses. But there's a new breed of manual ransomware attack happening that seeks to pick its victims much more selectively with a view to causing maximum disruption. We spoke to Roy Fisher, incident investigator at cyber security company MWR to find out more. BN: What makes manual ransomware different? RF: Traditional ransomware comes through some form of phishing attack or other 'spray and pray' technique. Manual ransomware requires much more time and effort from the attackers. They're trying to break… [Continue Reading]

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