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Ransomware: Extorting Money by Panic and Pressure

25

Dec

2012

We have blogged in the past about Ransomware being a growing menace and that ONE SHOULD NOT PAY RANSOM if affected. Ransomware has now raised its ugly head up once again. Writers of Trojan.Ransomlock.G (a.k.a. Reveton) have updated their locking screen to induce panic and to blackmail the user into paying ransom.Recently, blogger Kafeine found […]

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Chicken or Egg: Where Does W32.Changeup Come From?

04

Dec

2012

Throughout history, philosophers and scientists have pondered the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg. Over the last week, Security Response has seen an increase in the number of W32.Changeup detections. We know that Changeup can download a bevy of other threats onto a compromised computer. But an unanswered question is how […]

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W32.Changeup – A Worm By Any Other Name

01

Dec

2012

Whether a Montague or a Capulet, it never mattered to Juliet, as she made the case in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” when she says one of her most famous lines, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”Earlier this week, we wrote about the increase […]

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