Category: Technology

What To Do If You Fall Victim to Ransomware Ransomware is a malicious type of software, or malware, that prevents access to a user’s systems or files and demands payment to get access back. It tends to work in three main ways - either encrypting files so you can’t access them, locking the screen so it seems like you can’t get past the ransom note, or it’s a scare tactic (aka “scareware”) pretending to be ransomware so you’ll pay