
Ransomware may also result in your data being exfiltrated out of your system to the hacker’s system. Ransomware is a type of malware infection, or malicious software, that attempts to deny access to your own data, usually by encrypting the data with a key known only to the hacker who deployed the malware, until a ransom is paid. in May, 2017. Ransomware remains the number one security concern in 2018 among security professionals. Since 2016, there has been a major surge in ransomware targeted directly at healthcare organizations, as we saw with the international “WannaCry” ransomware attack that struck 150 countries and crippled thousands of healthcare organizations, including in the U.S.
