ANATOVA IS A NASTY NEW RANSOMWARE THAT TARGETS GAMERS

THIS IS A WORRYINGLY SOPHISTICATED THREAT

Anatova – a new strain of ransomware targeting gamers – apparently employs the icon of either a game or application in order to entice the user to double-click it. McAfee discovered the threat lurking on a peer-to-peer file sharing network, and not only does it boast strong protection techniques to defeat analysis, it’s also built with modular extension in mind.