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Ransomware, what does it target?

Recently, one of the biggest concerns is ransomware. Ransomware involves criminals holding people to ransom and threaten them or steal their data with various actions. Ransomware can be used in a variety of ways. Hackers can access private images and videos and then blackmail to others by threatening to share to the images and videos to the public. This method makes people into paying off the ransome rather than reporting to authorities due to the embarrassment and fear. Hacker makes people to extract the money by playing on the emotional distress. Ransomware is a type of malware that locks data, files, or full PC to extort money. Now anyone can become a target and everybody is required to store files, not to be held to ransom. You are most at risk of being targeted by ransomware if you are using untrusted websites, as the security features are poor. You are also more vulnerable if you click to open files via email from unknown sources. You always be careful about opening any email from someone that you do not know. Also, you can diagnose your website through security services. WMD is web security service which provides malware detection and checks malware origin expansion and spreading by early action. WMD visits your website periodically to diagnose and detect malicious events through both static and dynamic analysis. Through WMD, you can receive detailed report for your website activities and it enables you to take early action in respond to malware with alarm and report.

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