“For the end user, most of the damage by malware is transient. If you’re infected by a bot Trojan, your PC may send out lots of spam, but if anything, that slows down your PC only a bit. Even keyloaders, if they get ahold of your credit card, you don’t actually lose money because you can get it back. But ransomware is bad news, because the PC is unusable, or all your files are encrypted.” Mikko Hypponen – Researcher at F-Secure
Source: COMPUTERWORLD
About Mikko Hypponen:
Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert, speaker and author. He works as the Chief Research Officer at WithSecure and as the Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure.
Mr. Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge.
He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.
Mr. Hypponen sits in the advisory boards of t2 and Safeguard Cyber.
