OpenText; OpenText Corporation; Ransomware Preventing Hostage Data Technical Overview; Ransomware can be scary to face when it strikes. Cybercriminals take advantage of a vulnerability in your environment to infest your systems with malware that encrypts your vital business data so its unusable by you until you pay them ransom money to decrypt it and make it usable again. In some cases, they even steal the data and threaten to release it to your competitors or sell it to the highest bidder unless you pay them off first.