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ransomware
This term describes a specific category of cybercrime where digital assets are held hostage. It carries a strong connotation of extortion and urgency, evoking a sense of helplessness for the victim who faces a binary choice between paying a criminal or losing critical data permanently.
As a mass noun, ransomware is treated as uncountable. It refers to the software or the phenomenon of the attack rather than individual instances of the code. To refer to a single occurrence, users must employ partitive constructions such as a ransomware attack or a strain of ransomware.
Meanings
Examples
The company suffered a massive loss after a ransomware attack locked their servers.
We need to update our backups to protect against ransomware.
The hackers demanded two million dollars in bitcoin to unlock the files.
I cannot believe our entire database was hit by ransomware.
Many hospitals have become targets for ransomware because they cannot afford downtime.
The IT department is working around the clock to remove the ransomware from the system.
Paying the ransom does not guarantee that the ransomware will be removed.
A new strain of ransomware is spreading rapidly through email attachments.