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Old 04-07-2016, 11:14 PM
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Meet the new ransomware that knows where you live | ZDNet

"It appears that the scammers are leveraging some sort of database that has home addresses publicly available and using this for the scam," said Kashyap.

Scammers are increasingly moving away from enticing victims into entering their username and passwords on fake websites in order to take over accounts.

They're now turning to ransomware which has a much higher return.
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