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Jigsaw Ransomware Deletes Your Files If You Don't Pay Or When You Reboot Your PC (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers found a new ransomware yesterday called Jigsaw which will first lock your files and ask for a 0.4 Bitcoin ($150 USD) payment. If users don't pay, every hour the ransomware deletes your files. If the user restarts their PC, the ransomware also deletes 1,000 more files. The good news is there's a free Decrypter available to unlock the ransomware. The Decrypter was built by Michael Gillespie, who announced yesterday on Softpedia the ID Ransomware service, which tells infected victims what kind of ransomware infection they have by allowing them to upload an encrypted file and the ransom note.
it's just making note of the fact that those of us who don't use Windows don't need to worry about it.
For now.
If everyone used something else, that is what hackers would target, because that is where they can exploit the most users!
If everyone used everything else, we'd only have women in tech articles to complain about
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Restore from backups
all computers should be treated as a lost cause. To do anything else is foolish.
Some people are true assholes, poor fucking users who run into this. Imagine what will happen in the future, with self driving cars and somebody figuring out a way to take over and not let you out of the car until you pay, but if you don't pay within a time limit they will crash your car, drive it off a cliff or something...
Security needs to become part of culture, but with people sharing every bit of their lives on sites like FB, etc., with people not caring about NSA stealing their data... I don't know, there will be deaths because of this eventually. System security has to become central when relying on more and more computers and robots, drones, it has to be done.
You can't handle the truth.
Some variants of ransomware erase backup drives and cloud backups/network shares.
If it can be overwritten or erased by the live system it's not a backup. RAID is not a backup strategy. Copying files to a share is not a backup strategy.
A duplicate drive sitting on a shelf is a backup strategy. A tape in a box in is a backup strategy. A cloud-based solution that requires some special admin task to delete old backups is a backup strategy.
real way to solve the problem isn't just having more data for ransomware to encrypt or destroy. Work on pull based backups
Indeed.
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