Austrian hotel experiences 'ransomware of things attack'

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Toward the end of 2016, ESET senior security researcher Stephen Cobb expressed concern about the possible mingling of three different types of system abuse: holding computer systems and data files hostage (ransomware); denying access to data and systems (DDoS); and infecting the Internet of Things (IoT) with malicious code.

Austrian hotel experiences 'ransomware of things attack'