Sangfor Security Reads of the Week: New ransomware uses your social media profiles to personalise its demands

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With the increasing number of threats and overwhelming related news, Sangfor decided to share our favorite security reads of the week, by selecting the most interesting articles for you with this 7th edition. We hope that you will appreciate it and if you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

1. This ransomware uses your social media profiles to personalise its demands [15 Nov, 2016]
A newly discovered form of ransomware scrapes the social media accounts and local files of victims in order to tailor a customised demand, and threatens court action if it isn't paid.

2. Microsoft: Windows 7 is way more exposed to ransomware than Windows 10 [14 Nov, 2016]
For those of you who've avoided upgrading to Windows 10 so far, Microsoft has offered some scary ransomware numbers to prove it's in your interests to do so.

3. Bad karma! Ransomware piggybacks on free software downloads [15 Nov, 2017]
A ransomware sample is piggybacking off of free software downloaded from the internet to encrypt the files of unsuspecting users.

4. Yahoo investigating if insiders knew of hack [Nov 9, 2016]
Yahoo said investigators were looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew at the time about the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts.

5. Network security company CEO resigns after “joking” about killing Trump [Nov 18, 2016]
Matt Harrigan, the CEO of San Diego-based network security startup PacketSled, resigned yesterday after a flurry of comments he made on Facebook went viral over the weekend

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