5 steps to protect your company from ransomware attack

Posted: 27th Nov 2017

Security experts report about a significant increase in ransomware attacks performed against small and large businesses. Hackers deploy file-encrypting viruses to earn illegal profits that are gained in exchange for a special decrypt key. After the malicious program is installed on the system, it encodes data and demands a ransom.

Cybersecurity experts note that it has become extremely easy to create the crypto-malware, even if you have no IT-related knowledge. The underground marked is full of ransomware source codes that can be achieved for a specific price. The code can be used to develop a new offspring of the already existent ransomware without programming skills.

Besides, inexperienced crooks can order specific services which collect ransoms and save them in an individual Bitcoin account. As a result, the governmental authorities cannot identify the...

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