If your computer is infected with ransomware, your antivirus software probably won’t detect it until it’s too late.
Hackers use the malware to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents. The attacks are on the rise.
In May the FBI issued a warning that the number of attacks has doubled in the past year and is expected to grow even more rapidly this year.
Attacks most often show up in the form of an email that appears to be from someone familiar. The recipient clicks on a link in the email and unknowingly unleashes malware that encrypts his or her data. The next thing to appear is a message demanding the ransom, typically anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Often the ransoms are paid in Bitcoin, a digital currency that defies tracing.
One article at Futurity.org summed it up best:
“These attacks are tailored and unique every time they get installed on someone’s system,” says Nolen Scaife, a University of Florida doctoral student. “Antivirus is really good at stopping things it’s seen before … That’s where our solution is better than traditional anti-viruses.”
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Source: http://www.futurity.org/ransomware-computer-files-1198242-2/
