Ransomware continues to grow rapidly, warns McAfee Labs, the threat research division of Intel Security. Malware designed to lock up businesses’ data and demand ransom increased by 58% in the second quarter of 2015, according to the McAfee Labs Threats Report: August 2015. The total number of ransomware samples is also up, by 127% compared with the second quarter of 2014, the report said, attributing the increase mainly to rapidly-growing new ransomware families such as CTB-Locker and CryptoWall.
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