Cryptoworms: The future of ransomware hell
If you haven’t embraced backups yet because you think you are so tech savvy that you wouldn’t open spam email or fall for social engineering tricks, then brace yourself for cryptoworms. Security researchers warned that self-propagating ransomware, the semi-autonomous kind that doesn’t need any help from humans to spread, is coming in the future.
The Cisco Talos report, “Ransomware: Past, Present, and Future” first delves into the “traits of highly effective strains of self-propagating malware” before discussing how ransomware could evolve to include powerful, built-in, self-propagating traits like those in worms and botnets.
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