#ransomware Is a Dangerous Reality
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Source: Progress Software.Does paying a ransom sound like something from out of a movie? People may tend to associate ransoms with people being kidnapped. However, the threat of ransom malware, or ransomware, is a real one ravaging the web today.Ransomware is any dangerous virus which can attack and encrypt the files on a PC or within an entire network, transcoding the files so that they become inaccessible to the creators. At this point in the process, the victim knows something has happened, and the cybercriminal demands a ransom for allowing the victim access to his lost files which are being held hostage by the user of the malware.Once hacked, the odds for the victim reobtaining control of his files and/or device without paying the cybercrook are not too good. The dilemma is overly (...)