Ransomware
Software that locks or scrambles your files and demands payment to release them.
Learn it through a story
- Ranjan Uncle's Backup Diary (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 9)
- The Ransomware Email to the Placement Cell (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 9)
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Related terms
- Public wifi A shared wireless network anyone nearby can join, at a mela, cafe, or airport.
- QR code swapping Physically replacing a legitimate payment code with a fraudulent one.
- Quishing Phishing carried out through a QR code instead of a link or message.
- Rate limit A cap on how much one person or account can send.
- Rate limiting Restricting how many requests a client can make in a given time, to prevent abuse or scraping.
- RBAC / ABAC Role-based and attribute-based access control, two models for deciding who's allowed to do what.