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Just a tangential question: How to people manage to have ransomware on their computer generally ? Do they just run untrusted software on their machine ?
by Rexxar 8y ago
Just a tangential question: How to people manage to have ransomware on their computer generally ? Do they just run untrusted software on their machine ?
- 50656E6973 8y agoPhishing/downloading infected files. The infection can then potentially spread across the network if/when the infrastructure is running outdated and unpatched systems using publicly known exploits. Patch your systems and maintain backups if you want to avoid this!
- acct1771 8y agoPrecisely. Either in the form of AIDS.exe they thought was "that jewel game from the Yayhoos", or your secretary who received an email that said "I can't believe this is you!" and then executed macros in a malicious MS Word or PowerPoint file.