Spotlight on Ransomware: How ransomware works

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Spotlight on Ransomware: How ransomware works
In Security Knowledge by Sarah on May 1, 2017 | Русский, Italiano, Français, English, Deutsch 
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2017/05/01/how-ransomware-works/

How ransomware works: Gaining access rights

With thousands of different ransomware variants out there and growing by the day, explaining the precise steps of how ransomware works to take over a system vary across different strains. In general, once ransomware is executed it wastes no time scanning local and connected drives for files to encrypt.

    Expert tip: Since many ransomware variants will try to encrypt connected and shared drives, it is critical to keep external hard drives disconnected from your computer when you aren’t making backups. If they are attached when you’re being attacked it will most likely be encrypted as well.

Some variants such as Locky and DMA Locker can even encrypt unmapped network shares, making the .....
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