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Ransomware is a lethal kind of Malware that Encrypts your harddrive(s) and holds them hostage, providing the decryption key if you pay the hostage-taker(s) money (well-known variants are the FBI Virus and the Police Virus).
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Techniques to detect & mitigate Crypto-ransomware?
This ensures that a ransomware doesn't overwrite the backups.
Also, test your recovery strategy regularly. …
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Protection from ransomware using virtual machine
Just because you are not aware of any good ransomware targeting Linux today doesn't mean none exist or will exist in the near future. … That protects you from Ransomware and a whole heap of other problems. …
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Protect backup from ransomware
Use a backup solution which pulls from the primary system, not one where the primary system pushes to the backup system. The backup system should have read-permissions to the primary system while the …
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How to recover from ransomware using Restore Points?
It depends on the ransomware. There is no such thing as the ransomware. Each one of these annoying pests uses different methods to make a system unusable and they get constantly improved. … The only effective precaution against ransomware are complete system backups on a physically separated systems. …
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How can a company ensure cybercriminals destroy hacked data after payment?
They can't. There is no way to prove that one does not possess some information. So whenever someone claims that they destroyed all copies they had of a piece of information, you have nothing but thei …
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A ransomware locked my operative system on C. Are the other drives at risk?
As explained in the comments, your problem doesn't sound like ransomware at all.
But if it were ransomware, you can not know if the files on other drives are save. … There are countless of different flavors of ransomware out there which all have different strategies to find files worth encrypting. …
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Is ransomware that threatens with publication and verifiably deletes upon payment possible?
I don't see any way how this could be possible. When you have a copy of data, there is no way to prove that no other copy of that data exists, because you can not prove a negative. Trying to prove a n …
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Can a drive in locked state (via BitLocker) be over-encrypted/over-locked by ransomware?
In practice, most ransomware will use the the regular filesystem API, and won't know what else to do if that fails. … But creating a ransomware which accesses volumes on the binary level (thereby bypassing the filesystem) would be perfectly possible. …
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I accidentally clicked on ransomware link. Antivirus cleaned the files successfully
You are probably fine.
Viewing code on Github really does just that: viewing the code. Not executing it. Your anti-virus program probably detected those source files in your browser cache and reacted …
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Would it be plausible to write your own anti-crypto-ransomware tool?
Why there are not already more anti-crypto-ransomware tools?
Because there are. They are called virus scanners and they should have heuristic algorithms to detect this behavior. … Unfortunately the ransomware-developers are smart enough to test their creations against all commonly used virus scanners and make sure they circumvent their heuristics somehow. …
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