5 practical tips to avoid ransomware in your email

IT threats are increasing in quantity, complexity and diversity. We are made aware of them through a variety of studies, such as the report entitled Trends for 2015 – Targeting the Corporate World, which highlights the proliferation of malicious code such as ransomware, one of the types of threats that have been identified as increasing in recent months. One part of the world that has been particularly hard hit is Latin America, where we are located, with many cases of infection by CTB-Locker.

The purpose of this type of malware is to “kidnap” a user’s information by encrypting it and to demand payment as a ransom—and it’s becoming more sophisticated all the time, for example, through the use of asymmetric key encryption algorithms, which make it impossible to recover the information through reverse engineering or brute force.

5 practical tips to avoid ransomware in your email