We thought locking up data and demanding a ransom to decrypt it was bad. But ransomware criminals have stooped even lower and now, threats of public data exposure on top of multimillion-dollar ransoms are routine. What’s next? Where’s ransomware going in 2021? For episode 49 of Cyber Security Sauna, F-Secure’s chief research officer and CISO MAG’s Cybersecurity Person of the Year 2020, Mikko Hypponen joins us to give his take. Also in this episode: Ransomware’s evolution, why it’s mainly a Windows problem, the impact of remote work, how ransomware’s industrialization affects the threat landscape, and more.
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