With new digital tools, even non-experts can wage cyberattacks

Hackers are discovering that it is far more profitable to hold your data hostage than to steal it

Hackers are discovering that it is far more profitable to hold your data hostage than it is to steal it.
 
A decade-old internet scourge called ransomware went mainstream on Friday when cybercriminals seized control of computers around the world, from the delivery giant FedEx in the United States to Britain’s public health system, universities in China and even Russia’s powerful Interior Ministry.
 
On Saturday, investigators could not yet tell who was behind the attack as security experts around the world raced to contain it. Across Asia, several universities and organisations said they had been affected. Renault, the European