Ransomware 'Petya' Encripts Your Hard Drive!

Tuesday, 29 March 2016 10:36 Mark Gardner
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Ransomware 'Petya' Encripts Your Hard Drive!

If malware that holds the files on your computer to ransom isn’t bad enough, news that there’s a new variant in the wild that locks down the whole of your computer by taking over the boot process just made the situation a whole lot worse.

Called ‘Petya’, the new threat bypasses looking for the most important files to encrypt, and just goes ahead and locks up the entire drive instead, according to G Data Software.

Find out how to avoid being a victim of this attack; It's as easy as 123.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 March 2016 10:49