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Woke up to a ransom note on my desktop yesterday, actually felt sick for a minute
I clicked a link in an email I thought was from my bank. By the time I realized it was off, my files were locked and there was a popup demanding $500 in bitcoin. I immediately unplugged the ethernet cable and ran a full scan with Malwarebytes, which caught some shady process I'd never seen before. Luckily I had a backup from two days ago on an external drive so I only lost a few small files. Has anyone else had a close call like this with a fake login page?
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hall.joel20d ago
That fake login page trick got me too, what tipped you off exactly that it wasn't legit before you clicked?
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miles_burns20d ago
URL looked weird in the preview bar, just didn't match the real site's address.
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