A Malicious Software(Ransomware) that Locks Your Computer

Modern Ransomware attacks had been first struck in Russia the center of most hackers living in the world. Later the curse flowed to other countries such as Australia, Germany and United States of America etc. How does it attack? It enters into the system through a downloaded file or a problem in a network device. Later when the program is run it would harm personally

Data on hard drives of a PC. The malware author is the only party that knows the needed private decryption key. Later when the files are encrypted the ransomware will force victim to pay the money in order to decrypt the files or enter the lock code. The method of this kind of payment is via wire transfer, premium-rate text messages, online payment voucher service (Ukash, Paysafecard). Furthermore, ransomwares are installed by visiting malicious websites or by Social Networking sites, or email message.

How To Mitigate?

 1) By keeping firewall on all the time.

2) Turning automatic updates on.

3) Scan your computer on a regular basis.

Regards: Anshuman Kak a Script Kiddie From India.