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Forget BYOD, this is BYOVM: Ransomware tries to evade antivirus by hiding in a virtual machine on infected systems

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Well, even if the local machine's backups are deleted by this process, most companies have little to fear since for important data they no doubt take frequent off-site backups to other dedicated machines, from which quick restoral to one of the clean backups can be fast achieved.

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