people always think of malefic plans to steal money from other people, satoshi Nakamoto created bitcoin to help people, but the scammers are messing up the bitcoin image. then we will hear governments and banks say: "bitcoin is used for crimes"; "bitcoin is dangerous, be very careful".
A new deadly virus known as Dharma is seriously infecting computers ...
I think "deadly" might be a slight exaggeration.
this word scares people, I do not know what their purpose is to use that word
Dharma virus is not new...
But this time the scammers are asking for bitcoin
this virus is as old as a piece of mammoths feces, a "good" old file encrypting virus
as for the deadly , its just one of the clickbait adjectives journalists use (terrifed,happier,deadly,embarassing,costly mistake etc.)
there is nothing deadly in Dharma at most you will get your partition encrypted
also as with almost every ransomware it is simply unreasonable to send any money to the extorter since the files are not going to be decrypted back, they will just take your money
if you fell a victim to this virus, do not go to some random shady pornsites,pay for a pornhub subscription (kidding)
use free Kaspersky,SVG or Dr.Web utilities - in most cases you will have your data back for example:
https://www.avg.com/en-us/ransomware-decryption-tools