{"id":175046,"date":"2026-01-06T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/cyber-expert-offers-tips-for-staying-safe-as-ransomware-attacks-surge-in-nc-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:30:09","slug":"cyber-expert-offers-tips-for-staying-safe-as-ransomware-attacks-surge-in-nc-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/cyber-expert-offers-tips-for-staying-safe-as-ransomware-attacks-surge-in-nc-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber expert offers tips for staying safe, as ransomware attacks surge in NC :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/investigates\/ransomware-cybersecurity-email-tips-january-2026\/\">Cyber expert offers tips for staying safe, as ransomware attacks surge in NC :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/investigates\/ransomware-cybersecurity-email-tips-january-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/investigates\/ransomware-cybersecurity-email-tips-january-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-06 15:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWRAL Investigates reported Monday that the number of ransomware attacks in NC is increasing significantly, up almost fifty percent year over year, according to a state report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWe spoke with Deiker Lozano, the Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Capitol Broadcasting Company, WRAL&#8217;s parent company, to ask about red flags and proactive steps to stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHe explains that a ransomware attack is when a hacker locks a victim&#8217;s files, and prevents access to them, until the individual or company makes a ransom payment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHe says emails from hackers can be convincing, although many have one telltale sign: they fake urgency.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#8220;If you see any emails with something being urgent or something unexpected&#8230; they put the human sense of urgency,&#8221; he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLozano cautioned away from clicking on any links if you do not know who the sender is, or if the link looks suspicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tTo prevent attacks, Lozano suggested setting up multi-factor authentication on your devices, keeping software up to date, and, most importantly, being vigilant in knowing how common these attacks are.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#8220;Any regular person, any entity, organization&#8230; can be a target for a ransomware attack,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have to be aware and prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber expert offers tips for staying safe, as ransomware attacks surge in NC :: WRAL.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/35b7b53c-3295-4a22-8258-2b29a47afe87?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,35],"class_list":["post-175046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175048,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175046\/revisions\/175048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}