For more than two decades, ransomware attacks have been the bane of corporate IT managers and their CEOs ¡ª and a source of much research for cybersecurity professionals.
An underground market for hacking and encryption tools has helped such incursions proliferate, but thankfully a recent case shows what we can learn when attackers don¡¯t know what they¡¯re doing.
Unlike other cyber nuisances, such as viruses, which replicate and cause mayhem, or denial of service attacks, which bring networks to a grinding halt, ransomware is almost impossible to unwind once it¡¯s been deployed successfully. That¡¯s because they use encryption to lock up the files, with a secret decryption key being the only route out.
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