ransomware
On-Demand Webcast: Malicious Intent: What Malware Writers are Planning Next
White Paper Malware authors are targeting smaller numbers of victims in attempts to sneak under the radar, and they're turning away from email-aware worms to other methods of infection like "ransomware"—holding users' files captive until demands for money... [12 Dec 2007]
Live Webcast: Malicious Intent: What Malware Writers are Planning Next
White Paper Malware authors are targeting smaller numbers of victims in attempts to sneak under the radar, and they're turning away from email-aware worms to other methods of infection like "ransomware"—holding users' files captive until demands for money are... [12 Dec 2007]
Webcast: Malicious Intent: What Malware Writers are Planning Next
White Paper Malware authors are targeting smaller numbers of victims in attempts to sneak under the radar, and they're turning away from email-aware worms to other methods of infection like "ransomware"—holding users' files captive until demands for money are... [12 Dec 2007]
Malicious Intent: What Malware Writers are Planning Next
White Paper Malware authors are targeting smaller numbers of victims in attempts to sneak under the radar, and they're turning away from email-aware worms to other methods of infection like "ransomware"—holding users' files captive until demands for money... [12 Dec 2007]
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 their data again. [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 damage but Kaspersky... [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 by Helen... [05 Jun 2006]
