Ransomware

 

5 Most Dangerous Ransomware

Ransomware Warning

Major types of Ransomware:

• Crypto Ransomware – Encrypts valuable or important files on a computer so that the user cannot access them.
• Locker Ransomware – Locks the user files and prevents access to data and files available on the PC.

Top Five Ransomware attacks:

1.  WannaCry: It encrypts files on the PC’s hard drive after attacking a windows computer and makes it inaccessible for the user. To decrypt the files attacker demands a ransom payment in bitcoin. (Bitcoin- so as no one can trace where the money is going).

2.  Bad Rabbit: It spreads through the ‘drive-by’ method, which means a user visits an authentic/ legitimate website, unaware of the fact that they have been compromised by a hacker. 

3.   Petya: It encrypts the victim’s entire hard drive and it does this by encrypting the Master File Table (MFT) thus making it impossible to access files on the disk. Basically, it spreads through HR departments (viz. through fake email of job application with an infected dropbox link.

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