© Morey J. Haber 2020
M. J. HaberPrivileged Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5914-6_17

17. Ransomware and Privileges

Morey J. Haber1 
(1)
Heathrow, FL, USA
 

Let me get this out right off the bat: no one solution is 100% effective in mitigating the risk of ransomware. Some technologies are claiming to have tested hundreds of samples, and that their tool is perfect in stopping all types of attacks. I’m sorry, but that is a falsehood. Why? If any single vendor had a solution that could solve the problem completely, ransomware would not be such a problem.

At its core, ransomware is a form of malware that cybercriminals use to infect computers or cloud resources and then to encrypt files and data, making them inaccessible until the owner ...

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