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One threat down, but plenty more to go: why ransomware is not going away | Information Age
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You’re working on your laptop and suddenly, you can’t access any of your files. Photos, MP3s, documents, spreadsheets – they’re all encrypted! A message pops up with a ransom demand: unless you pay a certain amount of money by a certain time, all your files will be destroyed, or will remain encrypted forever. You will lose everything, all of your files, images and memories. What do you do? What can you do?