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"Microsoft no longer lets you decide whether to install Windows system updates, and online criminals have noticed. The new Fantom ransomware takes advantage of this situation by nearly perfectly mimicking the Windows Update process, and will keep almost any user fooled until it's too late. (Image credit: Bacho/Shutterstock) AVG security researcher Jakob Kroustek discovered Fantom last week. He notified the Bleeping Computer blog, and the details are pretty scary. The ransomware itself is&hellip;"
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