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Malware is getting nastier, but that shouldn’t matter

  • 11 April 2016
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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Sure, cybercriminals are always improving their wares, but nothing has changed about how our machines actually get infected.

 
April 11th 2016  By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
 
Oh, my God! Some BBC reporters got a phishing email with their home addresses within them! Stoke the fearfest. Then watch as other Chicken Littles join in and proclaim that this “new” way of delivering ransomware is endangering us all.
 
Please. Get a grip.
 The payload, Maktub Locker, is new, but the ways it can infect you date to the days of AOL email addresses.
 
You have to do some fundamentally stupid things to get infected by Maktub Locker. Let’s go over the basics, shall we?
 
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R
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Good article and good point made as proper security measures and practices should apply along with common sense.
Ssherjj
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Great article with valid points in keeping one safer with just tby doing the basics mentrioned ;)
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Baldrick
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Yes, definitively a good article reinforcing the thing that we have been saying here which is that the weak link in all of this is often the human 'component'. :(
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