This isn’t anything new, since these crappy malware infections have been around for years, but thought I would give you a heads up that a particularly nasty threat is on the loose out there.
IT security provider Kaspersky Lab has issued a security alert following the detection of a particularly malicious piece of “ransomware”, a cryptovirus, cryptotrojan or cryptoworm is a type of malware that encrypts the data belonging to an individual on a computer, demanding a ransom for its restoration. The term ransomware is commonly used to describe such software. Read on…
