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TeslaCrypt

aka cryptesla

According to Kaspersky, detected in February 2015, the new ransomware Trojan gained immediate notoriety as a menace to computer gamers.

According to Kaspersky, detected in February 2015, the new ransomware Trojan gained immediate notoriety as a menace to computer gamers. Amongst other types of target files, it tries to infect typical gaming files: game saves, user profiles, recoded replays etc. That said, TeslaCrypt does not encrypt files that are larger than 268 MB. Recently,

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