{"id":2966,"date":"2017-06-27T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T06:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2017-06-30T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T06:40:30","slug":"what-is-a-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-a-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Ransomware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ransomware is a form of malicious software intended to <strong>block access<\/strong> or threatens to <strong>erase the victim&#8217;s data<\/strong> until a ransom is paid.<\/li>\n<li>Many popular ransomware malware prefer to obtain payment through <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> as it is difficult to trace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>There are numerous types of Ransomwares as of today. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crypto-ransomware<\/strong>: This Malware encrypts the systems files and forces users to pay a &#8216;ransom&#8217; through certain online payment methods to get a decrypt key.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WannaCry<\/strong>:\u00a0WannaCry\u00a0is a widespread ransomware campaign\u00a0that is affecting\u00a0organizations across the globe. Over <strong>125,000 organizations in over 150 countries<\/strong> have been impacted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jigsaw<\/strong>:\u00a0Jigsaw\u00a0encrypts then progressively deletes files until ransom is paid. The ransomware deletes a single file after the first hour, and then deletes files every hour from thereon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>KeRanger<\/strong>:\u00a0 KeRanger ransomware was recently discovered on a popular Bit Torrent client. It is known to be specifically designed (First of its kind) to lock <strong>Mac OS X<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Crysis<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">:\u00a0This form of ransomware\u00a0can encrypt files on fixed, removable, and network drives and uses strong encryption algorithms<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware is a form of malicious software intended to block access or threatens to erase the victim&#8217;s data until a ransom is paid. Many popular ransomware malware prefer to obtain payment through Bitcoin as it is difficult to trace. \u00a0There are numerous types of Ransomwares as of today. Crypto-ransomware: This Malware encrypts the systems files&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-a-ransomware\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is a Ransomware?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kb","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704758239},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}