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Nation-state ransomware cyber crime on the increase

Global ransomware attacks are increasingly linked to nation states, with the lines between politics and crime often becoming blurred, Europol told AFP on Tuesday. Key ransomware attacks include the so-called WannaCry and NotPetya malwares, both of which hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in 2017, demanding that users pay ransoms to regain […]

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