SECURITY RESEARCHERS at Proofpoint have warned punters to watch out for another ransomware threat that wants to part you from money and feather a bastard’s nest.
Yup. Unbelievable. You probably thought that you had enough to worry about already. Turns out that you don’t. Get out a pen and send round word that the Bart ransomware is here and will lock up your data and your content and not let you have it back until you pay up, or do something else to restore your services.
The advice, as always, is not to pay up, but that is not the message that ransomware hackers put out. They say the opposite, but then they would as they have gone to some effort to get into this position. There are a lot of ransomware attacks these days.
Proofpoint said in a blog post that the hack is enabled through an email that promises to include photos. Anyone opening unsolicited emails that include nothing but ‘photos’ probably gets all they deserve, but we aren’t here to judge. For the full article click here
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