McAfee Labs Report Sees New Ransomware Surge 165 Percent in First Quarter of 2015

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intel® Security today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: May 2015, which includes revelations on the rapid proliferation of new ransomware, HDD and SSD firmware attacks by the Equation Group computer espionage group, and a major increase in malware targeting Adobe Flash multimedia software. In the first quarter of 2015, McAfee Labs registered a 165 percent increase in new ransomware driven largely by the new, hard-to-detect CTB-Locker ransomware famil

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