{"id":9852,"date":"2026-01-20T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/ransomware-what-it-is-and-why-its-your-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:02:26","slug":"ransomware-what-it-is-and-why-its-your-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/ransomware-what-it-is-and-why-its-your-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware: What it is and why it&#8217;s your problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Ransomware: What it is and why it&#8217;s your problem<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Ransomware is a type of malicious software that makes a victim&#8217;s data, system or device inaccessible. It locks the target or encrypts it (converting text into an unreadable form) until the victim pays a ransom to the attacker.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-01-ransomware-problem.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware: What it is and why it&#8217;s your problem Ransomware is a type of malicious software that makes a victim&#8217;s data, system or device inaccessible. It locks the target or encrypts it (converting text into an unreadable form) until the victim pays a ransom to the attacker. Go to techxplore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}