How to Use ransomware in a Sentence

ransomware

noun
  • Of course, the best way to deal with ransomware is to not get it in the first place.
    Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 9 July 2024
  • How did the ransomware get in, and which systems were breached?
    Etay Maor, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The ransomware attack took place March 21 by the hacking group Medusa.
    Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
  • At the time, the gang had laundered $500 million in ransomware payments.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 7 June 2023
  • And ransomware gangs are sinking to a new deplorable low.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • With the rise of ransomware, those three things often converge.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The takedown is a rare victory against a ransomware gang.
    Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This was carried out by a group or a ransomware group called Conti.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 June 2022
  • The Conti ransomware gang runs like any number of businesses around the world.
    Matt Burgess, Wired, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The amount of data leaked is some of the newest information about the ransomware attack that the city has released to the public.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • They are being threatened with ransomware all the time: Hackers get in, grab your data, not to sell it to others but to sell it back to you.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2023
  • Last week, Mayorkas was asked about the threat of ransomware attacks as the conflict in Ukraine continues.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • In some ways, the change is a positive sign that efforts to combat ransomware are working.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Last week, Clorox started to explain how the ransomware attack has hurt its business.
    Marley Jay, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Hornung says ransomware attacks — and the pressure to pay — will remain high.
    Barbara Booth, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The new report has ransomware figuring in 24% of breaches, just about the same in the previous release.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 7 June 2023
  • Dish Network has confirmed that ransomware is to blame for a major outage at the satellite TV provider.
    PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The city said early in July that 97% of its network had been restored after the ransomware attack.
    Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • It also was struck by a ransomware attack in August 2023.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2024
  • From time to time, Pargman learned of victim complaints to the Seattle office about emerging ransomware strains.
    Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Since the Conti ransomware strain emerged in 2020, its operators have caused havoc around the world.
    Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The May 2021 ransomware strike on Colonial Pipeline shows how wires can quickly become crossed, Fixler said.
    James Rundle, WSJ, 7 June 2023
  • Take last year, when the Colonial Pipeline disruption took place due to a ransomware attack in May 2021.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The ransomware group that appears to have taken credit for the breach calls itself RansomedVC.
    Aaron Schaffer, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Johnson wrote her bill in response to that attack and a ransomware attack that hit the city of Valdez about the same time, but since the statewide attacks the bill has gained momentum.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The ransomware attack was first detected on May 8, the health system has disclosed.
    Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2024
  • Its own ransomware site claims the gang has hacked dozens of companies and organizations across the globe.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 June 2022
  • The city of Dallas was hit by a ransomware attack on May 3, but city officials have yet to share full details of how the attack happened.
    Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • Blue Yonder, a major software supply-chain company, has been hit by a ransomware attack that was announced by the company Nov. 21.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Egnyte's entry-level tier costs slightly more ($20 per user per month) but includes data governance and ransomware protection.
    Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024

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