Friday, December 8, 2017

Keep your Information safe in your Computer & Mobile, Lesson 8 of 25

Ransomware Security Alert

Ransomware
Your Money or your Data

Infection Channels
SPAM
Malwares
Compromised Websitess

How to Protect Your self
Verify email senders and links
Update Antivirus and patch your System
Backup your files on regular basis

Critical information security threats related with Ransomware (malware) which encrypts all the data on a computer or mobile device.
How to protect yourself:
- Do not open attachments or files from Unknown or Suspicious Senders,
- Do not click to unsolicited web links from SPAM mails,
- Avoid clicking in images or links in attached PDF files from external emails.
- Place and backup your Business data and documents in Shared Drives,
- Avoid Enabling Macro, Editing and Content for received Office (doc, xls ..) files from external emails.

Security Alert: Very High
We received a Security Alert about a recent ransomware named WanaCry that has been massively circulated through the whole world. The Ransomware affecting thousands of computers across around 99 countries and It has targeted famous organizations (NHS, Telefonica, Iberdrola).
The ransomware has the window
functionality of (always on top) in
displaying the application’s window. It
encrypts all files with the file format
(.WNCRY). It also changes the desktop’s
wallpaper to the following:

Also we received a Security Alert about a recent ransomware named PETYA, Karo spreading across the world and infected thousand of machines.
The PETRA Ransomware can propagate through SPAM email with attached (doc) files with embedded Macro asking Users to enable Editing and Content.

There will be more security threats in future.
Enhanced and More Damaging.
Protection of Information and Information Assets should therefore be Everyone’s Business!

Never provide personal information to untrusted individuals.


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