How to Use ransomware in a Sentence

ransomware

noun
Definition of ransomwarenext
  • Of course, the best way to deal with ransomware is to not get it in the first place.
    — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 9 July 2024
  • The ransomware attack was first detected on May 8, the health system has disclosed.
    — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2024
  • That agreement is aimed at helping rural hospitals avert ransomware attacks.
    — Katie Palmer , Brittany Trang, STAT, 19 July 2024
  • Despite launching thousands of attacks, the group initially tried to keep a low profile compared to other ransomware groups.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 7 May 2024
  • So much so that nearly half of hospitals have had to disconnect their networks at some point due to escalating ransomware attacks.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2024
  • As many as one in three Americans may have had their data breached in the ransomware attack, stoking fears of widespread fraud and identity theft.
    — Tina Reed, Axios, 16 July 2024
  • The incident is another disturbing reminder of how ransomware groups are able to disrupt access to US healthcare providers.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 10 May 2024
  • On April 2, Jackson County’s assessment, collections and record of deeds offices were closed due to a ransomware attack.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
  • This included spreading the Maui ransomware strain to at least five US healthcare providers, which were pressured to paying a ransom to free themselves from the attacks.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 25 July 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
  • The takedown is a rare victory against a ransomware gang.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The May 2021 ransomware strike on Colonial Pipeline shows how wires can quickly become crossed, Fixler said.
    — James Rundle, WSJ, 7 June 2023
  • The ransomware group that appears to have taken credit for the breach calls itself RansomedVC.
    — Aaron Schaffer, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Those figures underscore just how large the ransomware crime ecosystem has grown.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • For instance, ransomware is a type of malware that locks up a victim’s computer files.
    — William Turton, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also some extent to which the war in Ukraine throws the ransomware industry into some amount of disarray.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Over the last month, the Dallas Central Appraisal District has been trying to resolve a ransomware attack.
    — Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • And even those that do have better systems in place can still suffer ransomware attacks, Dourish added.
    — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
  • More:What is Black Basta, thought to be behind the Ascension ransomware attack?
    — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • Even when schools catch a ransomware attack in progress, the data are typically already gone.
    — Frank Bajak, Fortune, 5 July 2023
  • As the volume of attacks has spiked, ransomware groups have become more aggressive and reckless in their tactics.
    — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 15 July 2023

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