The Daily Dose

If malware that holds the files on your computer to ransom isn’t bad enough, news that there’s a new variant in the wild that locks down the whole of your computer by taking over the boot process just made the situation a whole lot worse. Called ‘Petya’, the new threat bypasses looking for the most important files to encrypt, and just goes ahead and locks up the entire drive instead, according to G Data Software. To achieve its goal, the attacker sends out innocuous looking email that purports to be from a job applicant, with instructions to download a CV hosted in a Dropbox folder.…

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