Are your IT professionals prepared for the challenges to come?
Sorin Mustaca · Computer Fraud & Security · 2014
Last year, 2013, was the year of ransomware. We have seen many methods that this malware has used to scare victims – including child pornography, encrypting files, using P2P networks. Probably the most famous of all ransomware is CryptoLocker – a new variant of this type of malware that encrypts various files on the user's computer and demands the owner to pay the malware authors in order to decrypt the files.