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Sony BMG's Rootkit Fiasco

Malicious Life

CHAPTER

How to Stop Ransomware

Mark Rosinovich found a rootkit on his Windows computer. The software disguised files with the name $sys to make them invisible. First for Internet was selling digital right management software, DRM, to record companies. With cyber reason, defenders detect and stop ransomware that even others miss every time.

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