WINDOWS 10 users are receiving emails purporting to be from Microsoft, urging them to install a new update to their machine. But be warned, it’s not an official message from the US firm and the update is packed with dangerous malware and other vicious viruses.
Windows 10 users need to be on high alert for a scam update that’s circulating in emails that purport to be from Microsoft.
The dangerous Windows 10 update was discovered by the security researchers at Trustwave’s SpiderLabs. According to their findings, the nefarious update is designed to infect your Windows 10 machine with the Cyborg ransomware.
Once the ransomware activates itself, it will encrypt and lock all the files on your computer with a new file extension – 777 – so you can’t crack them open and access any of your own data. The malicious software then leaves a single text file, Cyborg_DECRYPT.txt, on the desktop. It contains instructs to pay the cyber-criminals.
Once they have to received payment, the online criminals promise to unlock the files on your computer so that you’re able to access your own family photos, music files, work, emails, and everything else you keep saved on your Windows 10 machine. However, that doesn’t always mean the nightmare is over. Cyborg is particularly gruesome because it installs a copy of itself deep within the root of the infected drive, which means it can be triggered and reappear at a later – forcing you to cough-up all over again.
Bottom line – you really don’t want this on your Windows 10 machine.
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We need public executions for the people behind this kind of stuff.