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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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Why are ransom attacks successful?
The real difference between disk failure and ransomware is that paying the ransom is cheaper than paying a data-recovery company, and is more likely to get your data back. …
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Does WannaCry infect Linux?
WannaCry exploits a set of flaws in Microsoft's implementation of the SMB1 protocol. Since these are implementation flaws rather than structural flaws in the protocol itself, Linux systems cannot be …
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