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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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In the era of cryptolockers, is it possible to prevent Windows from modifying your Linux par...

The only possible protection is the least priviledge rule. If the ranswomware can get admin priviledge (or priviledge to write on raw disk partition) on a machine, it will be able to do anything on an …
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Will password protected files like zip and rar also get affected by Odin ransomware?

So yes, password protected files will be encrypted by the ransomware. …
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Avast: studio64.exe detected as ransomware

This is a common problem. Anti-virus tools combine two different approaches to detect malware: signatures of known malwares and heuristics to detect suspect activity of still unknown softwares. And to …
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Why is so much ransomware breakable?

Ransomware developers generally do not want to build a security tool with all the involved reviewing. They just want the less expensive tool that will allow them to get more money than it cost. …
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Why don't we sandbox email clients company-wide?

There is a problem in the gain/cost ratio with your suggestion. The common ways to secure corporate end user machine without too much usability loss are: end users should not have admin privileges on …
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