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The locker ransomware is able to lock
your computers presenting itself as some
Law Enforcement agency that found
some concerning data on your computer
and it would seek the money in order to
unlock your machine. Many people
dealing with this sort of message would
experience some sort of the panic attack
and they would so irrationally pay the
required amount of a fine.

The real Law Enforcement agencies
would always recommend to avoid paying such a blackmailing requirement, but people would
get scared about their confidential data being allocated on that computer and they would give
some money on. In addition, it’s important to mention that the way of payment in this case would
be a voucher that could get converted into the money using the well-known online cash
machines that would seek your voucher’s code in order to give you the financial compensation.
Further, those incomes would get sent to fraudly created debit cards and in such a manner the
criminals would launder that money.

The crypto ransomware is a cybercrime solution that would encrypt your files and data and seek
from you to pay a fee in order to get a decryption key. It’s quite interesting that people would
willingly pay for this sort of blackmail – even no one would guarantee them that they would get
anything in return if they pay that ransom. As a way of the payment – the cyber criminals would
use Bitcoins. It’s a quite common scenario that people would find some files being inaccessible
and they would get a message that they need to pay a certain amount in Bitcoins.

So frequently – people would not even have their Bitcoin wallets and they would rush to open
the one. We are quite confident that people reading this article would be familiar with this sort of
threats and they would know that the targets would get a limited time to respond to the
cybercrime’s demands. Finally, it’s clear that this sort of threat would need the certain steps
getting applied in order to cope with this type of security concern. Some of the best practice
recommendations would get provided through this effort as follows.

The preventive methods

The ransomware is a quite recent security challenge affecting the developed societies several
years back. It’s only one of the steps in a malware evolution and many experts would agree that
it’s a quite mature solution at the present. In other words, the cyber industry got a plenty of time
to research this type of malicious code and develop some sort of response to it.

For instance, we would find some sources claiming that the entire anti-malware software would
get capable to handle this sort of threat which is more than encouraging.

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