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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2016: The 411 on ransomware
Oct. 12, 2016—Ransomware is a type of malware that is frequently delivered through phishing emails to an end user. Today, most variants of ransomware are designed to encrypt files on the infected system and network. This type of ransomware is called crypto-ransomware. Other variants have been known to erase files. Once blocking access to the system is...