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Ransomware: One Of The Most Bloody Hacking Technique by vitalscience(op): 6:28am On Sep 28, 2016
The world has been threaten by a new hacking technique where hackers send you an email with attachment and upon opening the attachment a script runs on your system and lock all the files. To unlock the files you need to pay them.



Read more about it at: http://techovic.com/ransomware-prevent-facts-figures/

Re: Ransomware: One Of The Most Bloody Hacking Technique by Khameal007(m): 9:50am On Sep 28, 2016
That is the logo for F. B. I sir.. and one of their primary objectives fall into all categories of cyber-misconduct... from pornography all the way to fraud.
Re: Ransomware: One Of The Most Bloody Hacking Technique by SpeedndAccuracy(m): 11:56am On Sep 28, 2016
Nice info bro,

It's been around for more than a year now (if not more)...but

You only pay if u have heavy files

Most of ur documents can easily be retrieved

Did it once..

Advice: watch what attachments u download from ur mail
Re: Ransomware: One Of The Most Bloody Hacking Technique by ultmatmus(m): 9:13am On Sep 29, 2016
Ransomware is your worst nightmare you wouldn't want to download any file from either an untrusted website or an unknown email attachment
Re: Ransomware: One Of The Most Bloody Hacking Technique by ultmatmus(m): 9:16am On Sep 29, 2016
Khameal007:
That is the logo for F. B. I sir.. and one of their primary objectives fall into all categories of cyber-misconduct... from pornography all the way to fraud.
it's just a disguise .....
they use those pics in conjunction with a message where they contact them..
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