New Ransomware Encrypts Victim Data

An unusual new strain of ransomware makes good on its threat, doing what the majority of other varieties only claim to do. The Trojan actually encrypts data on infected machines, effectively rendering certain files inaccessible to users on compromised computers in order to block removal.This veracious new version of the otherwise well-known police ransomware Trojan is unique but only in the sincerity of its promise. According to a report by Hynek Blinka on the AVG News and Threats blog, most ransomeware campaigns deploy a familiar warning, asserting that some crime has been committed by the user and that the user’s machine will remain locked

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  1. Threatpost

    106.0 days ago

    Unusual police #ransomware scam unique but only in the sincerity of its promise to #encrypt victim data - http://t.co/d8fBQiLa

  2. Christophe Veltsos

    106.0 days ago

    New Ransomware Encrypts Victim Data http://t.co/QDO6ctk0 [strange, was just talking about this type of in class threat today]



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