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Ransomware: A Growing Menace

08

Nov

2012

We regularly access computers in order to help with all manner of our daily activities. Indeed, many of us have come to depend on them, storing important files and documents for work and leisure. Imagine a scenario where you find that you can no longer use your computer, or imagine you are coming up to […]

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Ransomware: How to Earn $33,000 Daily

08

Nov

2012

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that disables the functionality of a computer in some way and demands a ransom in order to restore the computer to its original state. Recent variants use law enforcement imagery to add legitimacy to the warning messages. The malware uses geo-location services to determine the location of the […]

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Image Theft via FTP Could Be First Stage of Attack

07

Nov

2012

We recently came across a Trojan that steals image files of .jpg, .jpeg extensions, and Windows memory dumps (.dmp) from victims’ machines and uploads them to an FTP address hardcoded in the malware.This Trojan silently opens a command line and copies those image files found on the C, D, and E drives to the C […]

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