The multi-billion-dollar ransomware defense industry operates on one fundamental assumption: to cause catastrophic operational damage, malicious actors must write corrupted or encrypted data to a disk. However, a newly disclosed attack technique named GhostLock completely shatters this foundational premise. This technique demonstrates exactly how threat actors can paralyze entire enterprise file systems without encrypting a […]
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