Ransomware Awareness & Response Games
Explore ransomware decisions through interactive games covering suspicious attachments, containment, reporting and recovery planning.
Questions about CyberPlay training
What is ransomware?
Ransomware is malware that blocks access to systems or data, often by encryption, and is used to demand payment. An incident may also involve stolen information.
Know your organisation’s incident reporting process before an incident. Practise escalation and containment decisions in a game, and leave real response actions to the authorised incident team.
Warning signs to recognise
- Files suddenly become inaccessible or display unexpected extensions.
- A ransom message appears or an endpoint raises a security alert.
- Unexpected activity affects several systems or shared files.
Practise with these games
- Breach Breaker
A cinematic match-three security adventure across 150 missions and 10 worlds. Build chain reactions, contain threats and answer timed questions to earn your toolkit charges.
- Ghost Protocol
A tactical cyber conspiracy. Deploy operation chips, investigate threats, and learn who deserves your trust.
- Ransomware Reaction
A corporate awareness game about the first minutes of a suspected ransomware incident. You are at work, something starts going wrong, and how fast you disconnect and how clearly you report matter far more than trying to fix it yourself.
- Ransomware Survival
You are acting COO of AcmeWorks, a 75-person European firm, for thirty business days. Cash, a security budget that does not refill on its own, the day’s IT hours, morale and three client deadlines all compete with the boring work that actually stops ransomware — and the campaign that arrives in the last third of the month is assembled from every deferral you made.
- Security Tower Defense
Attacks walk across your office floor toward the CORE DATA VAULT. Put the right protection in their way — no single one stops everything. Fifteen security controls, twelve attack types and eighteen build slots on one floor, fifteen authored rounds, then procedurally generated ones forever.
Related cybersecurity topics
- Phishing Awareness Games
Practise spotting deceptive messages, suspicious sign-in pages and payment requests with free phishing awareness games.
- QR Phishing Awareness Games
Learn to check QR-code destinations and recognise quishing. Practise inspecting codes and choosing when to open, ignore or report them.
- Social Engineering Awareness Games
Practise responding to impersonation, phone scams, suspicious requests and workplace manipulation in cybersecurity scenarios.
- Password & Account Security Games
Learn about unique passwords, password managers, multifactor authentication and fake login pages through interactive security games.
- Backup & Recovery Awareness Games
Practise backup and recovery decisions. Explore the difference between synchronising files and maintaining recoverable copies.
- Workplace Physical Security Games
Practise clean-desk decisions, screen locking, badge handling and visitor checks in interactive office security games.
- Remote Work Cybersecurity Games
Explore home-office cybersecurity scenarios covering work devices, approved storage, router settings and unexpected phone requests.
- Wi-Fi Security Awareness Games
Practise choosing a wireless network and responding to suspicious captive portals, lookalike access points and certificate warnings.