How to Use ransomware in a Sentence

ransomware

noun

• Of course, the best way to deal with ransomware is to not get it in the first place.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 9 July 2024
• How did the ransomware get in, and which systems were breached?
  — Etay Maor, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• The ransomware attack took place March 21 by the hacking group Medusa.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
• At the time, the gang had laundered $500 million in ransomware payments.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 7 June 2023
• And ransomware gangs are sinking to a new deplorable low.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• With the rise of ransomware, those three things often converge.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• The takedown is a rare victory against a ransomware gang.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
• This was carried out by a group or a ransomware group called Conti.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 June 2022
• The amount of data leaked is some of the newest information about the ransomware attack that the city has released to the public.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• They are being threatened with ransomware all the time: Hackers get in, grab your data, not to sell it to others but to sell it back to you.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2023
• In some ways, the change is a positive sign that efforts to combat ransomware are working.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• Last week, Clorox started to explain how the ransomware attack has hurt its business.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The new report has ransomware figuring in 24% of breaches, just about the same in the previous release.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 7 June 2023
• Dish Network has confirmed that ransomware is to blame for a major outage at the satellite TV provider.
  — PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2023
• The city said early in July that 97% of its network had been restored after the ransomware attack.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• It also was struck by a ransomware attack in August 2023.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2024
• From time to time, Pargman learned of victim complaints to the Seattle office about emerging ransomware strains.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
• Since the Conti ransomware strain emerged in 2020, its operators have caused havoc around the world.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• The May 2021 ransomware strike on Colonial Pipeline shows how wires can quickly become crossed, Fixler said.
  — James Rundle, WSJ, 7 June 2023
• Take last year, when the Colonial Pipeline disruption took place due to a ransomware attack in May 2021.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2022
• The ransomware group that appears to have taken credit for the breach calls itself RansomedVC.
  — Aaron Schaffer, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The ransomware attack was first detected on May 8, the health system has disclosed.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2024
• Its own ransomware site claims the gang has hacked dozens of companies and organizations across the globe.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 June 2022
• The city of Dallas was hit by a ransomware attack on May 3, but city officials have yet to share full details of how the attack happened.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
• Those figures underscore just how large the ransomware crime ecosystem has grown.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
• For instance, ransomware is a type of malware that locks up a victim’s computer files.
  — William Turton, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• There’s also some extent to which the war in Ukraine throws the ransomware industry into some amount of disarray.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2023
• Wray emphasized the need for private companies to work with the FBI to thwart ransomware gangs and nation-state hackers.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 2 June 2022
• This includes the massive ransomware attack against the clearinghouse Change Healthcare that shook the health-care industry this spring.
  — Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
• Attackers can leverage these high stakes as a bargaining chip in ransomware attacks and force victims to pay or meet their demands.
  — Michelle Drolet, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024