If you haven’t heard much about “CryptoLocker” yet. you will.Unlike much of the ransomware we’ve written about in the past, CryptoLocker doesn’t attempt to use police themed trickery or other sleight of hand. It’s strictly business. It infects via e-mail attachments (zip files containing supposed PDF files) and then sets about encrypting all of your […]

Bitdefender Labs researchers have reverse-engineered the Cryptolocker domain generation algorythm and sinkholed the relevant domains between October 27 and November 1.

American PC users are being hit with a new wave of filecoder ransomware, which locks access to computers and demands $300 – with a ticking timer before files are locked forever.The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) issued a warning of an “increasing number” of infections with Cryptolocker, detected by ESET as a variant on […]