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Australian Medical Records Encrypted, Held Ransom

10

Dec

2012

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a server belonging to a small medical business located in Australia’s Gold Coast has been hacked, had its patient records encrypted, and held ransom for $4000. Image source: Google The Australian edition of SC Magazine reported on similar hacks earlier this year. This strikes us as an interesting […]

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MSRT November ’12 – Weelsof around the world

05

Dec

2012

Win32/Weelsof is part of a large malware family called ransomware, which is different from your traditional trojans and worms. Ransomware’s main goal is to financially benefit from every infected user and force them to pay. We included Win32/Weelsof in our November release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Malware entry point The user can be […]

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Police Ransomware Bears Fake Digital Signature

23

Nov

2012

Ransomware has become major concern among users, particularly those variants that mimic law enforcement agencies like the FBI (known as police ransomware). Certain features have also been incorporated into the threat recently, such as an audio file and just now, fake digital certificates.We encountered two samples bearing the same fake digital signature, which Trend Micro […]

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