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Tag: Ransomware

Coping with Ransomware – How Not To Be Held To Ransom.

May 17, 2016
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Ransomware is a particularly nasty piece of coding. When activated it encrypts your files manly, pictures, music, word, excel, adobe files and then conveniently displays a screen with a link where you can go to and pay for the decryption key to release your files. It’s nothing new, in fact its been around for quite some…

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Infected with Petya ransomware?

April 12, 2016
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An anonymous security researcher has published code that can unlock the encryption used by the Petya ransomware that surfaced last month. The ransomware – first spotted hitting German computer users – reboots the infected Windows PC, pretends to run a CHKDSK program while encrypting the hard drive’s file system tables, overwrites the master boot record,…

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