Cloud-Native Ransomware – How attacks on availability leverage cloud services WHITE PAPER by Kat Traxler, Principal Security Researcher – Public Cloud SECURITY THAT THINKSSECURITY THAT THINKS WHITE PAPER : Cloud-Native Ransomware 2 How Ransomware affects cloud-hosted enterprise data Ransomware is a financially motivated crime with the goal of inhibiting business systems and obtaining a ransom payment. Historically, ransoming data residing in traditional on-premises enterprise workloads and government systems have resulted in ample financial gain for assailants using ransomware attacks. With the expanding cloud footprint of modern digital systems, organizations are now trying to determine if ransomware can affect cloud-based workloads to the same degree, and further pondering “will

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