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Buying Ransomware Is Easier Than You Think

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Simple, scalable and low-risk, ransomware makes for a particularly tidy cybercrime. These days prospective attackers don’t even have to create their own ransomware; they can simply buy it on the dark web. Bloomberg investigations reporter Drake Bennett procured some malware to see how easy it was to launch an attack.

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