The ransomware known as OperativeDevice Malware is categorized as a serious threat, due to the amount of damage it could do to your device. If you have never heard of this kind of malicious program until now, you are in for a shock. Ransomware uses powerful encryption algorithms for file encryption, and once it is done carrying out the process, data will be locked and you won't be able to access them. Because ransomware victims face permanent data loss, it's classified as a highly dangerous threat. Criminals will give you a chance to decrypt data via their decryption tool, you would just need to pay a certain amount of money, but this option is not suggested for a couple of reasons. There are countless cases where files were not restored even after pay. We would be surprised if criminals didn't just take your money and feel obligation to aid you with restoring data. Secondly, your money would also support their future activities, such as more ransomware. Do you really want to support the kind of criminal activity. The more people pay, the more profitable it gets, thus increasingly more people are attracted to it. You might find yourself in this type of situation again sometime in the future, so investing the requested money into backup would be better because you would not need to worry about your files. If you had a backup option available, you may just remove OperativeDevice Malware and then recover files without being anxious about losing them. And in case you're wondering how you managed to obtain the ransomware, we will explain how it spreads in the paragraph below.
Read more...