Using ransomeware should be grounds for the death penalty.
“Click here to see hot naked women”
No one would ever fall for that, right?
malwarebytes stops ransomware.... for now.
Otherwise do the following:
These newer ones have a new delivery method now - Javascript attachments. Since most people have the default turned on in Explorer - not to show file extensions - they will name a file something like Invoice.txt.js.
Since the .js extension doesn’t show up, the file looks like Invoice.txt. Most people will assume that is safe to open ( Microsoft doesn’t help matters, because the default icon for a javascript extension resembles a document icon ). People will click on this and it will execute the script, connecting to a download server, fetching the actual ransomware in the form of a Windows program (an .EXE file), and launching it to complete the infection.
The way to counter this is to create a text file with notepad and rename it with the js extension. Then right click on it and tell it to open this with Notepad from then on. Start button> Run and type notepad then click ok.
I have the directions copied in then I go to File> Save as the choose Save as type: All files then type in a file name like stop ransomware.js
This way if one accidentally downloads one of these and clicks on it, it won’t execute.
Cabinet level...
Someone needs to protect the country from cyber attacks, botnets, ransomware and all the other crap our enemies use against us. Gates is smart enough to do the job...
I had to help rescue a college that got hit, whete the bastards had started quietly encrypting the tape backups a week in advance before dropping all the volume shadow snapshots and hitting the main NAS. Fortunately I was able to use U-Recover to find a surviving snapshot on a backup staging volume.
Of course, they paid. It’s quicker to pay them than fight them. Five minutes after the pay off, they have their data back. Two seconds later, their customers are charged for the pay off and no skin off the company execs.
If they fought the hackers and threw them in jail, they’d be out the legal costs which is much more than the blackmail. After years of court delays, they still won’t have their data back. It’s a win-win for the hackers and the company to just pay upfront. No one cares the customers lose.