{"id":679,"date":"2020-01-10T01:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namorgy.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2020-01-10T01:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:43:22","slug":"the-hidden-cost-of-ransomware-wholesale-password-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.namorgy.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/10\/the-hidden-cost-of-ransomware-wholesale-password-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vcpi.png\" class=\"iii-article-image\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0; max-width: 250px; max-height: 150px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"iii-article-excerpt\">\n  Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and frequently do siphon every single password stored on each infected endpoint.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"iii-article-source\">\n  Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2020\/01\/the-hidden-cost-of-ransomware-wholesale-password-theft\/\">The Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft<\/a><br \/>\n  via krebsonsecurity.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations 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