{"id":56539,"date":"2026-06-16T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/?page_id=56539"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:26:46","slug":"ransomware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56539\" class=\"elementor elementor-56539\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3db9593 e-con e-atomic-element e-div-block-base e-default-div\" data-id=\"3db9593\" data-element_type=\"e-div-block\" data-e-type=\"e-div-block\" data-interaction-id=\"3db9593\">\n    \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3debea6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3debea6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p dir=\"ltr\">El ransomware es un tipo de virus inform\u00e1tico (un \u00abmalware\u00bb) que secuestra tus archivos o tu ordenador y luego te pide un rescate econ\u00f3mico para devolv\u00e9rtelos.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">Funciona m\u00e1s o menos as\u00ed: el virus se cuela en tu ordenador o m\u00f3vil, normalmente porque alguien abre un archivo adjunto de un correo falso, hace clic en un enlace enga\u00f1oso, o descarga un programa de una fuente poco fiable. Una vez dentro, el ransomware cifra (bloquea con una clave secreta) todos tus documentos, fotos, v\u00eddeos y dem\u00e1s archivos, de forma que ya no puedes abrirlos ni usarlos, como si los hubieran metido en una caja fuerte cerrada con llave.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">Despu\u00e9s aparece un mensaje en la pantalla explicando lo que ha pasado y exigiendo un pago, normalmente en criptomonedas como bitcoin (porque es m\u00e1s dif\u00edcil de rastrear), a cambio de la clave que desbloquea los archivos. De ah\u00ed el nombre: \u00abransom\u00bb significa \u00abrescate\u00bb en ingl\u00e9s.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">El problema es que pagar no garantiza nada: hay quien paga y nunca recibe la clave, y adem\u00e1s pagar anima a los delincuentes a seguir haciendo lo mismo a otras v\u00edctimas. Este tipo de ataques puede afectar tanto a una persona particular como a empresas enteras, hospitales o ayuntamientos, y a veces paraliza sus sistemas durante d\u00edas.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">Para protegerse, las recomendaciones b\u00e1sicas son: hacer copias de seguridad de los archivos importantes de forma regular (y guardarlas en un sitio desconectado, como un disco duro externo), no abrir archivos adjuntos ni enlaces sospechosos de correos que no esperabas, mantener el ordenador y los programas actualizados, y usar un buen antivirus.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El ransomware es un tipo de virus inform\u00e1tico (un \u00abmalware\u00bb) que secuestra tus archivos o tu ordenador y luego te pide un rescate econ\u00f3mico para devolv\u00e9rtelos. Funciona m\u00e1s o menos as\u00ed: el virus se cuela en tu ordenador o m\u00f3vil, normalmente porque alguien abre un archivo adjunto de un correo falso, hace clic en un [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56539"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57026,"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56539\/revisions\/57026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensadigital.es\/gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}