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2. What is Ransomware? How to protect yourself from the ... - AOL

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   The attack leveraged hacking tools believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, and disrupted hospital and companies including Britain's health system and global shipper ...

3. Ransomware - Wikipedia

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   This led President Rodrigo Chaves to declare a state of emergency and announce that Costa Rica is "at war" with its ransomware hackers. [50] In some infections, there is a two-stage payload, common in many malware systems. The user is tricked into running a script, which downloads the main virus and executes it.

4. The Many Faces of Malware - AOL

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   Ransomware: Alters your computer system so you’re unable to log on, then demands payment to have your computer unlocked. Scareware: Claims your computer has a virus, then “scares” you to pay ...

5. Rhysida (hacker group) - Wikipedia

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   Rhysida is a ransomware group that encrypts data on victims' computer systems and threatens to make it publicly available unless a ransom is paid. [1] The group uses eponymous ransomware-as-a-service techniques, targets large organisations rather than making random attacks on individuals, and demands large sums of money to restore data. [2]

6. CryptoLocker - Wikipedia

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   CryptoLocker typically propagated as an attachment to a seemingly innocuous email message, which appears to have been sent by a legitimate company. [5] A ZIP file attached to an email message contains an executable file with the filename and the icon disguised as a PDF file, taking advantage of Windows' default behaviour of hiding the extension from file names to disguise the real .EXE extension.

7. Ransomware hackers raked in $1 billion last year from victims

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   Victims of ransomware paid their attackers more than $1 billion last year, a new report has found, a record high.