Scareware Demands Ransom After Making Files and Folders Invisible

Scareware or ransomware is not uncommon, many security solutions providers releasing advisories on how to handle threats which pose as law enforcement agencies that demand the payment of fines, accusing the user of copyright infringement.

New Ransomware attacks rising !..

In the last months an increase have been seen in ransomware attacks. All of the attacks are targeting some European country, so it looks like that all of them are related and the same cibercriminal gang could be behind them.

What is a Ransomware ? - Security Term

Ransomware is a type of malicious computer software that threatens the user to take some destructive or harmful actions. Ransomware demands the victim to pay up in order to stop it from running a payload or restore modified or stolen information. Typical parasites are usually trojans, malicious computer programs, which are disguised as harmless applications. Such pests get secretly installed to the system.