Key facts about ransomware and how to avoid it.
Ransomware has probably earned more posts on the Kaspersky Daily Blog than any other type of threat. Frankly, we’ve posted so many articles, pieces of advice, tips, and tricks, that only we security geeks — and the search engine bots — can read them all.
And so we decided to squeeze the some key facts into this one infographic. Want to know more about ransomware and how to protect against it? We’ll have a long post dedicated to ransomware pretty soon. Stay tuned!
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