Sentences with phrase «infected email attachments»

Like most botnets, Stegobot gains control of computers by tricking users into opening infected email attachments or visiting suspect websites.

It is usually spread by clicking on an infected email attachment or website and encrypts all the data files on a firm's computers.

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These emails would contain a zip attachment that when opened would infect the computer.

It is believed the WannaCry virus was spread without personal interaction via the typical toxic email attachment, attacking vulnerabilities in public systems, which once compromised were used to infect other systems.

Infected attachments, spam and phishing attacks delivered by email make it easy for cyber criminals to deliver malware and breach law firm security protections.

The reason for Rule # 2 might be less obvious: to trick you into feeling comfortable about opening an attachment, some types of malware will send an email with an infected attachment to all the address book contacts it finds on a computer that it has just successfully infected.

The malware, thought to originate in Eastern Europe or Russia, infects your machine in the usual way, e.g. when you open a dodgy email attachment or other file; but then it proceeds to encrypt most of the files on your computer, eventually denying you access.

This occurs when someone opens an infected attachment, clicks on a link in an email, or responds to a phishing message.

It doesn't have a good way if infecting Linux systems, though — you'd have to download it from a website or receive it as an email attachment and run the Trojan.

If you start downloading pirated software from illicit websites and opening dangerous programs that arrive as email attachments, you'll probably get infected with something.

Often delivered via a malicious attachment or link in a phishing email, ransomware encrypts the infected system, locking the user out until they pay a ransom — delivered in bitcoin or other cryptocurrency in order to get them back.

Most ransomware infects a computer or mobile device in «Trojan horse» fashion — infection is secretly triggered when you open an unexpected email attachment, visit a malicious website or install infected software downloaded from the Internet.