how can your information be kidnapped?

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! Ransomware is a malicious computer program that kidnaps important information on your computer and holds it hostage until you pay a ransom to get it back. How can your information be kidnapped? www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/ www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/

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Page 1: How can your information be kidnapped?

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Ransomware is a maliciouscomputer program that kidnaps important information on your computer and holds it hostage until you pay a ransom to get it back.

How can yourinformationbe kidnapped?

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Page 2: How can your information be kidnapped?

You receive a regular email with an “harmless” photo, PDF or word file. When you open the attached file, everything’s fine! Or so it seems…

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Page 3: How can your information be kidnapped?

You try to look at your photos, but you can’t. You want to edit a document, but

you can’t even open it. Uh oh! Ransomware is already in your system.

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Page 4: How can your information be kidnapped?

The only thing you can see is a window asking you to pay a ransom. It coerces you with the remaining time and offers you discounts if you pay immediately.

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Page 5: How can your information be kidnapped?

But... you’re already infected and paying to retrieve the stolen data does

not really mean that it will be freed, or that it won’t happen again.

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Page 6: How can your information be kidnapped?

This is why it is so important to protect your system with a cybersecurity solution

that’s capable of detecting and blocking advanced attacks like this one.

Panda Solutions For Companies

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