Present and future ransomware tactics model the past

Ransomware expert Andrew Hay has some advice: If you want to know how to avoid it now and in the future, it helps to study the past.In that spirit, Hay, cofounder and CTO at LEO Cyber Security, provided a detailed historical landscape of K&R (kidnap and ransom) in his talk titled “The Not-so-Probable Future of Ransomware” at SOURCE Boston 2017 on Wednesday.While ransomware holds information rather than people hostage, Hay said the evolution of tactics in the online world, “