{"id":501,"date":"2020-08-25T07:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:18:31","slug":"clop-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Clop Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safetydetectives.com\/blog\/what-is-ransomware-how-to-prevent-attacks-in\/\">Ransomware<\/a>&nbsp;is malware which encrypts your files until you pay a ransom to the hackers. \u201cClop\u201d is one of the latest and most dangerous ransomware threats. It\u2019s a variant of the well-known CryptoMix ransomware, which&nbsp;<strong>frequently targets Windows users.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before beginning the encryption process, the Clop ransomware blocks over 600 Windows processes and&nbsp;<strong>disables multiple Windows 10 applications,<\/strong>&nbsp;including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.safetydetectives.com\/blog\/windows-defender-vs-antiviruses-is-defender-enough-for-you\/\"><strong>Windows Defender<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<strong>and Microsoft Security Essentials<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 leaving you with zero chance of protecting your data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Clop ransomware has evolved since its inception, now\u00a0<strong>targeting entire networks\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 not just individual devices. Even the Maastricht University in the Netherlands became a victim of the Clop ransomware, with almost all Windows devices on the university\u2019s network is encrypted and forced to pay a ransom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware&nbsp;is malware which encrypts your files until you pay a ransom to the hackers. \u201cClop\u201d is one of the latest and most dangerous ransomware threats. It\u2019s a variant of the well-known CryptoMix ransomware, which&nbsp;frequently targets Windows users. Before beginning the encryption process, the Clop ransomware blocks over 600 Windows processes and&nbsp;disables multiple Windows 10 applications,&nbsp;including&nbsp;Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamscomputers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}