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Ransomware shuts down a hospital for more than a week. This time, there's a $3 million demand.

Some pre-Internet history of ransomware.

Malicious adverts have been found on the UK version of the Match.com dating website. Anyone caught out by the booby-trapped ads could fall victim to ransomware, said security company Malwarebytes, which spotted the cyber-threat. The malicious ads appeared on pages of the dating site via an ad network that pipes content to Match and many other places.

Here's the Tennessean story about the Dickson County sheriff department's encounter with ransomware.