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his is to inform you that, A new virus Spreading these days through the email attachments. Virus is known as “Locky/Ransomware” & user data getting encrypted & become unusable in infected computers. To decrypt data files again need to pay money for the attackers & cannot decrypt data any other ways.
Therefor users are advised to be careful when opening email attachments or click links coming from unknown Senders, SPAM’s & advertisements. Virus file comes as Microsoft Word Document, you may mistakenly open & execute the virus & infect the virus yourself.
Modes of infection
Ø Spam emails
Ø Infected portable data transfer devices
Ø Click on an infected link
Ø Map Drives in the network
How can you stay protected?
Ø Stay aware and updated
Ø Keep your systems and security solutions updated
Ø Regularly backups your files and try to have an alternative mode of storage
Ø Be cautious before you click and open email attachments
Ø Control and restrict your access points to sensitive data
Ø Use Antivirus & Spam filters from gateway level & block transferring executable files via emails.
Defense strategies
The best strategy is to make sure you are running an updated anti-malware product, capable of stopping the infection. The Kaspersky detect most variants of cryptolockers as “Trojan-Downloader.MSWord.Agent & Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Locky.*”. Kaspersky host intrusion prevention system, heuristic analyzer & System Watcher capable of blocking even unknown versions of this Trojan from infecting the systems.
*** However please note that cannot recover encrypted files due to the nature of asymmetric encryption & As always, prevention is the best cure.
Office ekata AVIAN (Kaspersky) eken ewapu mail ekak. podakka alert eke indapalla
Therefor users are advised to be careful when opening email attachments or click links coming from unknown Senders, SPAM’s & advertisements. Virus file comes as Microsoft Word Document, you may mistakenly open & execute the virus & infect the virus yourself.
Modes of infection
Ø Spam emails
Ø Infected portable data transfer devices
Ø Click on an infected link
Ø Map Drives in the network
How can you stay protected?
Ø Stay aware and updated
Ø Keep your systems and security solutions updated
Ø Regularly backups your files and try to have an alternative mode of storage
Ø Be cautious before you click and open email attachments
Ø Control and restrict your access points to sensitive data
Ø Use Antivirus & Spam filters from gateway level & block transferring executable files via emails.
Defense strategies
The best strategy is to make sure you are running an updated anti-malware product, capable of stopping the infection. The Kaspersky detect most variants of cryptolockers as “Trojan-Downloader.MSWord.Agent & Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Locky.*”. Kaspersky host intrusion prevention system, heuristic analyzer & System Watcher capable of blocking even unknown versions of this Trojan from infecting the systems.
*** However please note that cannot recover encrypted files due to the nature of asymmetric encryption & As always, prevention is the best cure.
Office ekata AVIAN (Kaspersky) eken ewapu mail ekak. podakka alert eke indapalla
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