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Ransomware: Playing on your fears

16

Mar

2012

The last two years have seen an increase in malware which takes control of, and holds hostage an infected machine, locking the user out until a payment of some form can be extorted. This threat type is also known as ‘ransomware’. Various tactics have been used by the malware writers in an attempt to intimidate […]

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Ransomware, An Evolution

02

Mar

2012

Malware, like anything else, runs in cycles. And as of late, trends seem to be pointing to extortion as the latest developing theme. The ransom theme was given center stage April of last year after an attacker targeted Hyundai Capital’s network in South Korea and swiped copious data belonging to more than 420,000 customers. The […]

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Hackers fail to extort $50,000 from Symantec, as pcAnywhere source code is published

08

Feb

2012

Symantec has confirmed that a file made available on the internet for anyone to download, does contain the source code for an old version of its pcAnywhere product. For a short while last month, before releasing a patch, Symantec advised customers to disable their pcAnywhere installations because of concern that hackers could exploit vulnerabilities. In […]

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