Ransomware Protection Guide
Dear Readers, For the past couple years you may have noticed the appearance of a new and very nasty type of computer threat called Ransomware. According to Kaspersky a computer gets infected with a ransomware every 10 seconds! In 2017 more than 150 countries got affected by the variant of ransomware called WannaCry. It truly did make a lot of people want to cry, since the damage it inflicted is estimated to be over 1 BILLION dollars! So, how does this ransomware work? Let’s take a couple of moments to see how it infects your computer, and what it does to it after that. Stage 1: Infection Ransomware usually tries to infect your computer via two ways. The first one is infected Email attachments. Using a technique called phishing, hackers can learn about you through your LinkedIn or Facebook accounts, then send you an email making it sound like it came from your colleague or friend. This Email would contain an infected attachment with a name relevant to something you would receive fr...