Glossary
Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS)
A business model in which ransomware developers lease their malware and infrastructure to affiliates, who carry out the actual attacks and split the ransom payment with the developer. RaaS has significantly lowered the technical barrier to launching a ransomware attack, driving much of the growth in ransomware incidents over the past several years.
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