Encrypting Viruses

An encrypted virus is a virus that uses encryption to hide from virus scanners; in simple terms, the encrypted virus encodes itself differently so that it doesn’t remain the same overnight.  Through this technique, the virus prevents itself from being detected by anti-virus software. The virus first decrypts then executes.

Viruses are constantly evolving; they are becoming more advanced and dangerous by the second, posing a challenge to keep data protected. Unless organisations are well protected, they are a risk of becoming victims of the latest computer virus threats and malware attacks. Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to steal valuable information; this is why there must be working anti-viruses installed in PCs all times. Here is an example of the current most dangerous encrypted viruses and malware threats that organisations and employees need protection from; 1. Clop ransomware; these viruses encrypt files until a ransom is paid, it is one of the latest and most dangerous threats, it has now evolved, it targets an entire network.

Organisations need to stay ahead of these threats and inconveniences brought by malware. However costly the protection might be, going without virus protection can have very severe consequences, both for the company and employees. The most obvious one being lost data, lost time, money and resources that would have been channelled for other use by the organisation. To avoid all this, organisations and employees need to stay protected, and one way of doing this is through having reliable anti-virus software installed

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