Dan Goodin — New wave of Ransomware spreads quickly through Russia and Ukraine

"Bad Rabbit."

Ars Technica
New wave of Ransomware spreads quickly through Russia and Ukraine

Dan Goodin | Security Editor

Alex Tabarrok — Ransomware Goes Big Time

ArsTechnica: According to the FBI, ransomware payouts in the United States jumped from $25 million in all of 2015 to over $209 million in just the first quarter of 2016.

Clearly, this is just the beginning.

Marginal Revolution
Ransomware Goes Big Time
Alex Tabarrok | Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center