The newest Ransomware variant to plague the web goes by the name of TrojanDownloader.Win32.Locky. Similar to other Ransomware, Locky is designed to take personal files from a computer and encrypt them using a complex key. This key is then ransomed to the computer’s owner, essentially holding your valued files hostage. The kicker though, even if […]
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Ransomware is malicious software that cyber criminals use to hold your computer or computer files for ransom, demanding payment from you to get them back…
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A team of researchers has created a new kind of cyber-attack where malicious code is able to be sent in parallel with a legitimate software download…
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The overall health of the online world is in decline — more than 6 million new malware threats were created in the last quarter of 2012…
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