Abstract:Malware is a 'malicious software program that performs multiple cyberattacks on the Internet, involving fraud, scams, nation-state cyberwar, and cybercrime. Such malicious software programs come under different classifications, namely Trojans, viruses, spyware, worms, ransomware, Rootkit, botnet malware, etc. Ransomware is a kind of malware that holds the victim's data hostage by encrypting the information on the user's computer to make it inaccessible to users and only decrypting it; then, the user pays a ran… Show more
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