Sunday, August 26, 2018

To Pay or Not to Pay – That is the Ransomware Question

Imagine you’ve just come home after a long day of work to open your computer and find a pop up on your screen instructing you to pay approximately $500 to unlock and decrypt all your files. You’ve just been hit by ransomware, and now you have a choice to make. Do you pay up to get your files back, or do you stand your ground? Ransomware has recently become the hottest attack method for hackers to use, and it effects upwards of 10,000 people in the US each day.

https://www.zonealarm.com/blog/2016/10/should-i-give-into-ransomware-attack/

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