The front lines of ransomware attacks.
Hacking Humans
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Is There a Trend to Continuously Beat the Defense Mechanisms?
The trend came about because as soon as the act of making backups got better, people said, okay, even if you encrypt, I'm going to be able to use my backup efficiently. That's why the threat moved to saying, okay, you know what, you can have decryption keys easily. And we are already seeing some of those innovations right now. Instead of encrypting, they are trying to just corrupt files. So it's not really an encryption process, but they're just kind of taking data from one file and randomly putting that data into other files. This could potentially beat like an EDR or other tools that are looking at ways in which encryption is happening and detecting that
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