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The FBI recently published a report claiming that ransomware victims paid out over US$209 million just in the first quarter of 2016, compared to US$24 million for all of 2015. Ransomware has very quickly become the most fashionable malware on the market, flooding the threat landscape in ways never seen before. We are seeing new strains of ransomware almost every single day. What is Ransomware? Ransomware is malware that locks access or functionality on your computer and then demands payment in exchange for restoring normal operations...