How to Use ransomware in a Sentence

ransomware

noun

• At the time, the gang had laundered $500 million in ransomware payments.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 7 June 2023
• And ransomware gangs are sinking to a new deplorable low.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• The takedown is a rare victory against a ransomware gang.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
• The amount of data leaked is some of the newest information about the ransomware attack that the city has released to the public.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• They are being threatened with ransomware all the time: Hackers get in, grab your data, not to sell it to others but to sell it back to you.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2023
• In some ways, the change is a positive sign that efforts to combat ransomware are working.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• Last week, Clorox started to explain how the ransomware attack has hurt its business.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The new report has ransomware figuring in 24% of breaches, just about the same in the previous release.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 7 June 2023
• Dish Network has confirmed that ransomware is to blame for a major outage at the satellite TV provider.
  — PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2023
• The city said early in July that 97% of its network had been restored after the ransomware attack.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The May 2021 ransomware strike on Colonial Pipeline shows how wires can quickly become crossed, Fixler said.
  — James Rundle, WSJ, 7 June 2023
• The ransomware group that appears to have taken credit for the breach calls itself RansomedVC.
  — Aaron Schaffer, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The city of Dallas was hit by a ransomware attack on May 3, but city officials have yet to share full details of how the attack happened.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
• Those figures underscore just how large the ransomware crime ecosystem has grown.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
• For instance, ransomware is a type of malware that locks up a victim’s computer files.
  — William Turton, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• There’s also some extent to which the war in Ukraine throws the ransomware industry into some amount of disarray.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2023
• Over the last month, the Dallas Central Appraisal District has been trying to resolve a ransomware attack.
  — Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2022
• And even those that do have better systems in place can still suffer ransomware attacks, Dourish added.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
• Even when schools catch a ransomware attack in progress, the data are typically already gone.
  — Frank Bajak, Fortune, 5 July 2023
• As the volume of attacks has spiked, ransomware groups have become more aggressive and reckless in their tactics.
  — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 15 July 2023
• Some are impossible to miss — like ransomware —and others keep a low profile.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024
• Global ransomware attacks are at an all-time high after steadily increasing over the last few years.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Then, in the spring of 2021, a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline by a Russian criminal group shut down one of the nation’s largest fuel pipelines for six days.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• Indeed, 2021 had some of the biggest ransomware attacks on record aimed at large companies and nonprofits.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Baltimore officials estimated at the time that the ransomware attack would cost the city at least $18 million.
  — Alta Spells, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• The appraisal district ran into major problems this year when a ransomware group shut down computers, its website and email.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• The ransomware attack took place days before the Thanksgiving 2020 holiday.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2023
• Some city services continue to be affected by the ransomware attack.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2023
• Advertisement The app is also designed to block phishing attempts that can lead to ransomware attacks.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• Most recently, The Guardian suffered a ransomware attack in December.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024