{"id":84468,"date":"2017-06-28T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs_admin.quickheal.com\/?p=84468"},"modified":"2017-06-28T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T11:55:16","slug":"dos-donts-stay-safe-ransomware-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/dos-donts-stay-safe-ransomware-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"DOs and DON’Ts to stay safe from Ransomware (infographic)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you live in a cave, you would definitely know what is a ransomware. It is a malware that is keeping Internet users awake at nights and restless during the day. It does not strike with a warning, and when it does it does not leave without causing a catastrophe.<\/p>\n

Ransomware is a malware that takes your data or computer hostage and demands a ransom in exchange. To put it in a little technical manner, once the malware infects a computer, it starts encrypting (converting data into an unreadable form) the stored data (images, videos, documents, music files, game files, etc.). This is followed by a ransom note where the victim is informed about the encryption and the ransom (money) they should pay to get back their data.<\/p>\n

We have had bouts of ransomware attacks recently. After WannaCry<\/a>, which was the biggest ransomware attack in history, we came across the latest Petya Ransomware. This post speaks about this malware in detail and also lists out important safety measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this infographic, we have listed the important dos and don’ts to stay safe from ransomware.<\/p>\n

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Unless you live in a cave, you would definitely know what is a ransomware. It is a malware that is keeping Internet users awake at nights and restless during the day. It does not strike with a warning, and when it does it does not leave without causing a catastrophe. Ransomware is a malware that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":84473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[910,5],"tags":[585,50],"class_list":["post-84468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ransomware","category-security","tag-infographic","tag-ransomware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84474,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84468\/revisions\/84474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}