Malware

Malware is short for malicious software, is a term refer to a hostile or intrusive software including worms, computer viruses, trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware and other malicious programs. They are maliciously intended that acts against the requirements of a computer user, it usually takes advantages of deficiencies in the code of a system.


These infectious programs started as pranks or tests, today the malware is used by both hackers and government. Today the main malicious purposes are for steal personality, financial or business purpose.

• Ransomware: the infected computer is unable to be used until a pay is made. For example the CryptoLocker encrypt that only when you pay the ransom, you are able to decrypt them for a large sum of money
• Virus: a computer program usually hidden within seemingly innocuous program that produces copies of itself and inserts them into other program or files.
• Trojan horses: a malicious computer program which  misrepresents itself to appear useful and persuade a victim to install it. generally spread by some form of social engineering, for example where a user is duped into executing an email attachment disguised to be unsuspicious.

these are some of the principal malware found today in the internet, the consequences of becoming a victim of any of this can be extremely dangerous, as said before, from pranks by friends to a ransomware infecting a hospital and threatening to lock all files until a payment is made. People need to be aware of this and educated to be able to prevent this attacks.