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Windows 8 Not Immune to Ransomware

Nov

2012

Cybercriminals have for some time now recognized that ransomware can be a highly profitable endeavor. This has led to a significant increase of different ransomware in the wild with no sign of it leaving the threat landscape anytime soon.So, how effective is ransomware on Windows 8 compared to other operating systems? To answer this question, […]

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Police Ransomware: How to Get Your Malware Noticed

Sep

2012

Recently, I talked at the VB2012 conference in Dallas about one of the recent developments in today’s threat landscape: the increasing prevalence of police ransomware. Earlier, Trend Micro published a white paper discussing this threat, titled The “Police Trojan”.The idea behind ransomware is relatively simple: the cybercriminals block the user from accessing their own computer. […]

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Botnet Owners Feeling “Grum” After Takedown

Jul

2012

A coordinated effort lead by security researchers at FireEye and Spamhaus has resulted in the takedown of one of the largest spam botnets in the threat landscape. The botnet, known as Grum, was reportedly responsible for close to a third of the world’s spam email traffic.We’ve been watching the developments carefully here at Symantec and […]

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