Ransomware that encrypts all or part of the hard drive is five-and-a-half times what it was the year before, Kaspersky Lab says. The number in 2014-2015 was 131,111 compared to 718,536 in 2015-2016, the report says. There was a significant percentage increase in cryptor ransomware from 6.6% to 31.6%, the report said. Attackers behind the production of ransomware are focusing more now on mobile devices than before.”]
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