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The Emergence of Ransomware
White Paper Computer crimes in one way or another have modeled themselves on biological organisms (such as viruses and worms) or on real-life actions or incidents (Trojan horses) to carry out their tasks. Some of these methods have been used... [12 Nov 2009]
The Internet: Where Did IT All Go Wrong?
White Paper It's hard to imagine life today without all of problems that the Internet has introduced: phishing attacks, cyber-bullying, data theft on a scale never before imagined, spam, distributed denial-of-service attacks,... [14 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet One set of cyber criminals have used encryption within so-called 'ransomware Trojans' which infect a PC, encrypt some data and then display an alert telling the victim to send money to get the decryption key to access... [28 Nov 2007]
Ransomware on the rise, warns Kaspersky
News Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Russia's Kaspersky Labs, told the RSA Conference in San Francisco the use of so-called "ransomware Trojans" is a key trend for 2007. Cryzip and GPCode didn't cause massive... [07 Feb 2007]
'Ransomware' hackers to go unpunished?
News Greater Manchester Police (GMP) will not be pursuing the criminals who used a Trojan horse program to lock a Manchester woman's files and demanded a ransom to release them. The malicious Archiveus program was unintentionally downloaded... [05 Jun 2006]
