049| Ransomware 2.0, with Mikko Hypponen
Cyber Security Sauna
English - January 19, 2021 20:31 - 32 minutes - 59.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTechnology News Tech News infosec cybersecurity informationsecurity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We thought locking up data and demanding a ransom to decrypt it was bad. But ransomware criminals have stooped even lower and now, threats of public data exposure on top of multimillion-dollar ransoms are routine tactics. What's next? Where's ransomware going in 2021? Joining us to give his take is F-Secure's chief research officer and CISO MAG's Cybersecurity Person of the Year 2020, Mikko Hypponen. Also in this episode: Ransomware's evolution, why it's mainly a Windows problem, the impact of remote work, how ransomware's industrialization affects the threat landscape, and more.
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