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CISA Issues Guidance on Protecting Data From Ransomware

August 20, 2021

Recent high-profile incidents involving ransomware have resulted in sensitive and personal information being stolen by the attackers, in addition to encrypting data on compromised machines and causing major service disruptions.

In fact, adversaries typically lurk for a long time in the compromised networks to identify and exfiltrate data of interest, and only then deploy ransomware to encrypt the victim’s machines. Thus, they increase the impact of the attack, as they can blackmail the victim into paying a ransom, threatening to make the stolen information public.

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