Every new technology invented by man always tends to be sabotaged by him. Whether it is buildings, cars, electronic products or software, in the period of boom and diffusion the proliferation of hostile agents occurs in the same way. It also happened in the world of personal computers: when people concluded that those electronic devices were about to become a new frontier for storing personal data, the first viruses appeared. From here a series of challenges followed, on the one hand in improving both the architecture of the physical components and the software programming to prevent further flaws, and on the other to find further ones.
Nowadays security in the IT world is taken quite seriously by manufacturers, but not so seriously by users. Designing a malicious program has become more of a challenge than an attempt to steal money or information. An example of this is the ransomware that brought the Lazio region to its knees, the subject of this article and a source of in-depth information on how to defend oneself and what to do to prevent similar eventualities. Ransomware
As previously mentioned, managing to find new vulnerabilities at the hardware or protocol level for network communication systems has become enormously complex; on the one hand there are new versions and continuous updates aimed at mitigating the weak points of the systems, on the other there is encryption. The latter technique works in favor of bona fide users and aims to protect communications and personal data from unwanted people by simply encrypting the information, i.e. turning it into meaningless masses of ones and zeros until it is deciphered using the same keyword.
Ransomware is as ingenious as it is devious; why waste time developing a virus capable of sneaking into systems in a hidden and invisible way to defense programs in search of sensitive information in order to steal money from the victim? The answer is, of course, it no longer makes sense to do so. It is sufficient to use encryption in bad faith, encrypting user data and demanding a ransom for it to be decrypted and returned to be usable. This is exactly what ransomware does.
More precisely, the proper definition of ransomware is to identify it as malware (i.e. any software with the specific objective of stealing information or money from users) that limits the functions of your system by encrypting all stored personal data and demanding a ransom for its decryption.
Generally the ransom must be made to a virtual address using Bitcoin, so that the transaction is untraceable.
How to protect yourself from Ransomware and how to remove it
IT security has made great strides in recent years, although the case of the Lazio region seems to deny this statement. The best way to defend yourself from such attacks is to adopt two prevention systems: a good antivirus and paying attention to the software downloaded. Windows system formats are a good point starting point: if the goal is to search for and download a song, its format will probably be mp3; if the extension appears as .exe or .msi, it is certainly a virus. Likewise if you try to download an image: the most common formats are JPEG or PNG; the file with executable format should be immediately deleted and certainly not opened. As for removal, the issue becomes more complicated. Since it is software that encrypts personal data, even by removing the virus it would not be possible to access your data It is important to never pay the ransom, since there is never any certainty that the data will actually be decrypted following the payment. style="box-sizing: inherit;">Another solution consists of cloud platforms. Nowadays, the expansion of computing power and user needs has meant that the reality of cloud computing has developed to a large extent. These are virtual machines made available by various providers such as TreDiPi, which offer the same functions as a normal computer with the difference that the hardware is managed directly by the supplier company. It is no longer necessary to worry about security, backups, the health of the components and the vulnerabilities of the system.
What distinguishes cloud solutions consists precisely in shifting all these responsibilities to professionals, transforming them into services provided rather than operations that must necessarily be carried out on a daily basis, under penalty of the risk of losing data.
TreDiPi, in particular, provides cloud services aimed at creating information systems for small-medium businesses that are always accessible, secure, reliable and high-performance. It is part of a digital transformation plan for businesses, a real project tailored around the company that intends to increase its productivity by acting on the information system and no longer having to worry about its maintenance. 100%; color: rgb(87, 89, 98); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 15px;">Read also
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