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New virus disables computers by encrypting hard drives

New virus disables computers by encrypting hard drives

September 29, 2016

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A new strain of ransomware, called Mamba, is circulating through multiple industries, including healthcare, and crippling computers by encrypting entire hard drives.

So far, there really isn’t much that can be done except pay the ransom to gain a key to decrypt the hard drive, experts say.

Ironically, Mamba emulates protections found in commercial data security products, but uses the protections against the victim, says Keith Fricke, a partner and principal consultant at tw-Security.

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