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How ransomware manipulates a user's brain into paying up

By Alan Martin on Jul 23, 2017 5:08PM
How ransomware manipulates a user's brain into paying up

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Ransomware is surprisingly big business, and big businesses are ruthlessly efficient at getting what they want. Some criminal outfits have even reached a scale where they can employ surprisingly efficient customer service operatives to field user queries, just like legitimate businesses. But ...

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