Terrifying new Ransomware

This is here some scary sh%t.
I know I sound like this guy

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about backing up your entire systems to ‘offline/removable’ media but I’ll keep on saying it.

This nasty is spreading fast on corporate networks. Scary thing is it still uses social engineering and poor user training/safety methods to launch/install. It usually arrives as an email attached archived zip file with an executable inside that should have been a dead giveaway that this message was malicious and was in no way legitimate. But sadly most people have not been properly educated on computer safety or are just plain lazy and don’t think to look at what they are doing. But once installed it can wreck havoc on a company.

Please develop and use some kind of offline full system backup plan for your personal and especially your business.

Do not think or rely on ‘cloud based’ backup system to protect you from this type of attack. Think about it, your now encrypted files would be uploaded to the cloud and overwrite your original/good ones.

I’ve written so many times about the need for offline backups you can just look through my blog and find more info about that.

Be safe folks!

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