ransomware

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9664229/60-members-Congress-parties-victims-latest-ransomware-attack.html Cyber criminals target Congress: 60 members from both parties are left UNABLE TO ACCESS data for weeks in latest ransomware hack In latest ransomware attack, members of Congress...

Long story short, even "normal" looking attachments from expected senders can harbor nasty bugs. Opened up a resume on my personal laptop, only to have it infect my whole system with Cryptowall ransomware. All files, pics, etc are forever unretrievable. Need to wipe the whole computer and...

Well my week started out pretty crappy. Tuesday evening I got hit with an attack of ransomeware. They encrypted almost all of my files in My Documents including a couple thousand pictures. They want $700 for the "key", this Thursday that will go to $1400. To answer the question I know will be...