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It’s tough being a malware distributor – you can’t exactly go around asking people to install your malware – you need to be creative. So a global news story such as the election of Pope Francis is too good an opportunity to pass up. The attack, launched a few days after the white smoke cleared, […]

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Spanish police have reported the arrest of an individual involved with a particular strain of police Ransomware known as Ransom.EY, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Ransomgerpo.This variant is one of the earliest active police Ransomware families, which Symantec has been tracking since at least July, 2011. The Trojan was distributed using drive by download techniques, in […]

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Yes, it does. And depending on where you are located, it can even speak in your mother tongue.As discussed in our paper Police Ransomware Update, the people behind police Trojan/Ransomware have implemented improvements to make this threat more effective. Gone are the days when ransomware simply showed a message that users’ systems are “captured” and […]

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