ransomware

In his IT Threat Evolution Report Q3 2019, Kaspersky took stock of the situation on cyber security, highlighting that ransomware continues to pose a serious threat to user safety.

Spotted in the past few hours, it remains invisible to scanning engines for now. It requires 0.025 bitcoins as a ransom, equal to about 150 euros.

Ransomware continues to claim victims, much more than in 2018. In addition to the victims, ransomware versions are also increasing: Kaspersky has discovered more than 16,000, belonging to 8 different families, in the first quarter of 2019.

Not only that: the SonicWall Cyber Threat Report 2019 shows that in 2019 the first malware could arrive that could exploit the vulnerabilities of processors like Specter, Meltdown, Foreshadow and Spoiler.

Costin Raiu, director of Global Research for Kaspersky Labs, reports that today's ransomware hit Ukraine more and to follow Russia, cases were also found in Poland, Italy and Germany.

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Encryption of the entire hard drive and ask for a ransom to provide the encryption key: the ransomware are an increasingly common danger for some years now. In the field of information security, one of the most dangerous threats that…

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