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Training Camp • Cybersecurity Glossary
Triple extortion ransomware combines data encryption, threats to leak stolen data, and a third lever like DDoS or extorting victims' customers to force payment.
Triple Extortion Ransomware Definition: Triple extortion ransomware combines data encryption, threats to leak stolen data, and a third lever like DDoS or extorting victims' customers to force payment.
Triple extortion ransomware is an attack model that layers three pressure tactics to force payment: encrypting the victim's data, threatening to leak stolen data (double extortion), and adding a third lever such as DDoS attacks or directly extorting the victim's customers, partners, or patients. By multiplying the points of leverage, attackers pressure organizations that might otherwise restore from backups and refuse to pay. It evolved from single (encryption-only) and double (encryption-plus-leak) extortion schemes.
Triple Extortion Ransomware is one of the topics you'll master in the CEH Boot Camp.
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