How to prevent ransomware

Learn how to mitigate ransomware attacks

Danny Jenkins, Rob Allen, and Nicholas Cottrell initiate a legit ransomware attack on a victim machine to demonstrate the dangers that just one wrong click can allow in a secure environment.

What is ransomware?

Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts your computer, locking you out of confidential files and data until you agree to pay a sum to the threat actor. Threat actors may also exfiltrate data from an organization and threaten to sell it on the dark web unless a ransom is paid.