eMazzanti Technologies | Technology Newsletter | Hoboken, NJ – New York, NY | March 2016

NYC area IT security consultant warns customers and the public to take extra precautions to avoid data loss in light of new data security threat

Hoboken, New Jersey — (Cision) February 26, 2016 — eMazzanti Technologies, a NYC area IT consultant and MSP, issued a warning today regarding a new ransomware virus that has infected hundreds of thousands of computer networks worldwide.

The company urges business and home computer users to take extra precautions to avoid being victimized by the malware threat, called Locky, that encrypts their data, holding it hostage until a ransom is paid.

“Locky is wreaking havoc across the net,” stated Almi Dumi, Project Lead, eMazzanti Technologies. “We urge our customers and others to take the necessary steps to avoid losing data. We advise computer users not to open email attachments they are not expecting or from senders they do not recognize.”

Here is the text of the warning:

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