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• AV firm seeks help cracking ransomware key

  As a camouflaging move, Gpcode also tries to erase itself.Finally, the ransom note appears on-screen. A security company has asked for help cracking an encryption key that is central to an extortion scheme which demands money from users whose PCs…
  09 June 2008

  Tags: Antivirus • Gregg Keizer • Trojan • Labs • Identified • Encrypted

• Single group behind ransomware Trojans

  As with its predecessors, the new Trojan, also named Glamour, sets out to encrypt data files on any PC it infects, demanding a ransom of $300 in return for a key to unlock files.Now an analysis from security research outfit Secure Science…
  27 July 2007

  Tags: Date • Trojan • Criminals • Trojans • Identified • Encrypted
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  New wave of ransomware hits PCs

  The text file contained the "ransom" note. So-called ransomware typically follows the GpCode pattern: malware sneaks onto a PC, encrypts files, and then displays a message demanding money to unlock the data.
  17 July 2007

  Tags: Rsa • Encrypt • Victims • Russian • Researcher • Algorithm

• Webmail 'extortion attack' underwhelms

  If true, the attack would have been the first of its kind, a disturbing extension of from 2006 which focused on encrypting files and demanding a ransom to have them unlocked. To quote the description of the attack from the Websense Security Labs…
  19 December 2006

  Tags: Cyber • Accounts • Threat • Account • Labs • Encrypted

• Heavy sentence handed to cyber-blackmailers

  Canbet then agreed to pay the ransom into a Latvian bank account, after which they were still attacked. However, we've noticed a real drop in the number of attacks, and it could be said that this type of cyber crime is already pretty much extinct…
  05 October 2006

  Tags: Websites • Crime • Cyber • John Dunn • Russian • Ddos

• New encryption Trojan roving for victims

  A new Trojan that encrypts data files before demanding a ransom has been discovered, after a woman in the UK was locked out of files on her Windows PC.Arhiveus-A (also known as MayAlert), demands that victims make purchases from one of three…
  01 June 2006

  Tags: Malware • Trojan • Password • Encryption • Victims • Locked