The main difference between Ransoc and usual lockers is its highly increased ability to persuade users. The ransomware blocks browsing and shows the victim’s personal data along with photos from social networks. In addition, the malware makes demands that look rather rational. How is that possible? Read More
State and local government agencies, as well as K-12 educational institutions are being targeted in a newly discovered spam email campaign aimed at distributing a new ransomware variant, Proofpoint researchers warn. Dubbed MarsJoke, the malware was observed in late August, but the first large-scale spam campaign involving this piece of ransomware kicked off only on […]
Hopefully we are all aware that we should exercise caution when downloading programs from the internet. There have been plenty of cases of malicious software being distributed via the web, and even legitimate programs being tampered with in order to carry an unexpected payload in order to compromise security on the computer which downloaded them. […]
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