By Pier Luca Montessoro, University of Udine One day, one very bad day, you open your laptop and a red screen informs you that all your files have been encrypted and you have to pay a ransom in bitcoin to get them back. And what is worse, you know (or...
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SI-CERT, the national CSIRT of Slovenia has been handling reports of ransomware attacks on a regular basis since April 2012. Until 2019, attack victims were selected randomly as part of a mass-volume campaign aiming to spread the virus. However, since...
By Avinash Singh and Hein Venter, Department of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria Ransomware is one of the most destructive forms of malware which targets the most important asset of any organisation or system, their data. Ransomware targets...
Ransomware is used by cyber criminals to block you from accessing your data and hold it ‘hostage’ until you pay the ransom. How does it work and how to avoid losing control over your data? Read our tips and tricks below and become a cyber hero! Tip 1...
The CIRT of the Faculty Computer Science of the University of Skopje was founded 2.5 years ago as the result of a cybersecurity exercise which brought to light the need to raise cyber security awareness and coordinate the response to potential cyber...