Summary

Welcome to Kernel Panic , a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here . With so much going on all the time, you may not have thought about ransomware and data extortion attacks in a minute, even though they’ve been among the the biggest cybersecurity threats to institutions—and, by extension, people—over the past decade.

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