Thwarting Ransomware Attempts With Alerts.

The article discusses the issuance of ransomware warning alerts by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to organizations being targeted by cybercriminals. It explored the way CISA alerted Equifax Inc. chief information security officer (CISO) Jamil Farshchi about an imminent ransomware attack, the Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative and the Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot of CISA, and the methods being used by CISA to notify potential ransomware victims.