Ransomware can be devastating to anyone with essential documents on a computer or phone who has not backed them up to a separate location. Hackers and phishers have created programs that act in the background of a person’s device, encrypting the data and then locking it until the victim pays up. Now computer scientists at Concordia University are working on software to stop ransomware in its tracks.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/concordia-researchers-developing-software-to-fight-ransomware-1.4527701