New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware [feedly]

New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware
https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/cryptocurrency-mining-ransomware.html

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware, depending upon their configurations to decide which of the two schemes could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that locks your computer and prevents you from accessing the encrypted data until you pay a ransom to get the decryption

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