If you have ever encountered a Malware or tried to delete or stop a virus spread, you will understand how agonizing to get hit by a virus/malware is, no matter how small the effect. These programs could be sitting silently on your device waiting for the right time to activate.
Many of these malware are sometimes activated immediately you boot your device while others are constantly transferring your information such as login details, text, messages, chats etc. to the attacker. That is why it is very much advisable to be cautious with your device(computer, phones and smart gadgets in general). If you do not know much about virus & malware but want to know how you can get infected, we made an article not too long ago. Click on the link below to read in details about how your device can get infected.

There is a new family of Android RansomWare that has just been discovered, for the sake of our non-techie members, here’s a brief explanation of what the RansomWare is all about. According to Wikipedia, Ransomware is a kind of malware from cryptovirology that takes steps to distribute the victim’s information or restrict total access to it except if an amount is paid. While some straightforward ransomware may secure the framework in a way which isn’t hard for a tech inclined individual to invert, further developed malware utilizes a system called cryptoviral technique, in which it encodes the victim’s documents, making them unavailable to him/her and requests a ransom to give access back to them. In a properly actualized cryptoviral blackmail assault, recovering the victim’s data without the decoding key is somewhat impossible and since it is hard to trace advanced cryptocurrency, for example, Bitcoin and other digital currency are utilized for the payoffs, making the tracing off the culprits difficult.

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https://www.cybertechguide.com/2019/08/ransomware-alert-android-devices-are-under-attack