how to avoid ransomware attacks | You will be no exempt from this ! Everyone is a part of this huge campaign . Be alerted about that email with Invoices , Quotes and application for fortune or lottery scheme that comes to your email from an unknown person. The title and content is so appealing that you are induced to open the attachment.
In reality, from the moment you open the attachment, you have opened a back door to hackers to enter your PC. They can do anywhere from stealing you personal data without your knowledge from time to time . Your PC and any associated network device are also subjected to the risk of encryption . In addition, you or the company will end up paying a huge amount if you are holding any sensitive documents.
The technicality behind this is briefed in general as below. The attachment or the RAR file you receive will have a sleeping script clipped in the unseen background. This script is scheduled for its pre programmed task. As time goes ,( in short time ) the scripts will start to execute one by one and give control of you PC and documents to the writer of the script (Hacker). Refer to the attachment , it shows how ransomeware work from these attachments. Credits to sonicwall.
Tips to avoid any Email Attacks
- The basic step of prevention is having a good anti virus in place . Remember to keep it always updated. We would suggest ESET or Kaspersky for home and personal use
- Do not open any email attachment from unknown person , no matter how appealing the email subject is. No one is going to send you free money or free shipment in real.
- Use option ‘Report’ Spam right in your web mail service for servers to identify this quickly
- Do not deactivate Antivirus email plug-in and email scan tools. If you feel slow using this, opt out from scanning outgoing mails
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