You’ve almost certainly heard of the ransomware family known as DoppelPaymer, if only because the name itself is a reminder of the double-barrelled blackmail technique used by many contemporary ransomware gangs. To increase the pressure on you to pay up, so-called double-extortionists not only scramble all your data files so your business stops running, but also steal copies of those files to use as extra leverage.

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