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ESET's cyber security business reported on Wednesday that Colombia is the country of Latin America with the largest number of computer viruses in 2018 requiring ransomware scams or cyber-extortion.
According to the detection systems of the Slovak company, Colombia recorded 28% of the cases, followed by Peru (17%), Mexico (15%), Brazil (11%), Argentina (9% , Ecuador and Venezuela 4%), according to EFE.
"We see this year a major outbreak of this type of attack in Colombia, mainly due to a campaign that is finally targeting this country of the Crysis virus," Matias Porolli, an ESET analyst, explained to Efe as part of the Information Security Forum Malware. the company is developing until Thursday in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Exactly, this virus led to the number of detections in the South American country, with 79% of cases, followed by other "ransomwares" like TeslaCrypt (4%) and Locky (2%).
Crysis was in 2017 the top 5 of the most detected cyber-bars in Latin America and caused "a great loss of data in the region and globally," according to the company's blog.
ESET warned last July that a new Crysis campaign is spreading via email, especially in countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru.
"This Crysis focus was originally in Colombia, but then spread to many nearby countries," Porolli said.
In the case of Colombia, the virus spread by email in Spanish asking the user to pay debt through a collection company "with a supposed PDF file that was actually a" link "to download the" malware ", argues the Argentine engineer .
Once this cyber threat enters computers, it encrypts – like other viruses in the same family – the data of its victims, and then requires time-limited payment of a wolf, usually in a virtual currency, to retrieve retrieved information.
According to ESET data, Latin America accounts for 13% of 'ransomware' scans in the world and the United States remains the main target of this threat, with 9.5% of international cases.
WannaCry, Petya, Cerber, Cryptolocker and Locky have been among the most dangerous cyber abuses that have been recorded in recent years in the world.
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