Understanding Ransomware and Strategies to Defeat it 1 Understanding Ransomware and Strategies to Defeat it WHITE PAPER McAfee Labs2 Understanding Ransomware and Strategies to Defeat it WHITE PAPER Table of Contents 3 Ransomware History 4 Timeline of Some Noteworthy Ransomware Familes 5 CryptoLocker CopyCats 5 The World of Digital Currency Payments 6 Why Ransomware Has Such Strong Growth 6 Massive Ransomware Growth 7 Ransomware Authors Appeal to Affiliates 8 Telemetry Tracks Revenues 9 From a Few Come Many 10 Primer: How Ransomware Works 12 The Latest in Ransomware Tricks 13 Predictions from McAfee Labs 13 McAfee Malware Operations 15 Primer: Ransomware Remediation Strategies Hollywood Presbyterian employees were forced to move back to paper and t

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