How to avoid becoming a victim of a dangerous ransomware attack

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4. Revving up security solutions. Always remember that anti-ransomware solutions and anti-virus software also helps defend your computer network against any or even the most sophisticated ransomware attack. These solutions or software also help in the recovery of encrypted data.

According to Checkpoint, “Conventional signature-based anti-virus is a highly efficient solution for preventing known attacks and should definitely be implemented in any organization, as it protects against a majority of the malware attacks that an organization faces,” it said.

The other one is network protection, which offers advanced technologies such as sandboxing which have the “capability to analyze new, unknown malware, execute in real time, look for signs that it is malicious code and as a result block it and prevent it from infecting endpoints and spreading to other locations in the organization.”

Microsoft together with its international partners recently stopped a massive and dangerous hacking operation called Trickbot, one of the world’s most infamous botnets and prolific distributors of ransomware.