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What is Ransomware?
Ransomware is malicious software that infects our equipment, and gives cybercriminals the ability to lock your PC from a remote location and encrypt your files…
The Rise of the Ransomware – Police Virus Reloaded
Some of you probably remember this article where I described the huge increase of attacks seen in some countries by malware that was posing as…
The Rise of the Ransomware
In the last months we have seen an increase of ransomware attacks. While the first ones we saw were posing as Microsoft to threaten the…
Ransomware posing as Microsoft
We’ve found yet another malware piece, this time it is a ransomware to take some of your money. Once you get infected (you can receive…
Rogueware with new Ransomware Technologyâ„¢
The criminals behind Rogueware attacks are becoming increasingly aggressive in their approach to make money. We recently stumbled across a sample (Adware/TotalSecurity2009) which uses a…
Ransomware Reloaded
One of the latest examples of ransomware we have seen is Trj/SMSlock.AThe main aim of this malware is to make users pay ransom for their…
A new case of RansomWare !!!
We have detected a new case of RansomWare. Once the malware infects users and encrypts their files, several “read_me.txt†files are created in the infected…