- Jan 24, 2011
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Ransomware with file encryption capabilities represents a problem that does not seem to come with a solution for the time being, as the amount of new samples for this malware family has increased dramatically, with CTB-Locker and CryptoWall being the most prominent exponents.
In a report released on Tuesday, researchers at McAfee Labs presented a dire situation regarding the crypto-malware threat in the first quarter of 2015.
Telemetry data from the company showed a total of more than 720,000 new samples emerging in the first months of 2015.
This accounts for almost a threefold increase, considering that in Q4 2014 the company identified slightly over 250,000 new ransomware samples.
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