As we said before, there is furious competition between cybergangs. Late February 2014 a copycat ransomware competitor to Cryptolocker was released which outdoes CryptoLocker. The malware finds text, picture, video and MS Office files and encrypts these with a strong RSA-2048 key which is practically impossible to undo. Next, it wipes out all Shadow Volume Copies. Ouch.
If an end-user opens the infected attachment, they charge 360 Euro ($U.S. 500) in bitcoin. If the four days deadline passes by, the amount goes to 720 Euro ($U.S. 1,000) but the exchange rates vary wildly.
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I have no doubt that we will be hearing more of this one shortly.
Eeeeek, Jasper...http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sSc_eek.gif...this is not good. I hope that the Threat Research team is up to their usual high standards and on top of this new nasty.
Baldrick
Baldrick
The fact of the matter is that whatever Malware gets brought out it will always be "improved" on, a bit like the Moore's Law of malware :@
Without WSA we would be in the muck heap!
Without WSA we would be in the muck heap!
So so right, Jasper...Gott Sei Dank...for Webroot & WSA http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sHa_friends.gif
Cheers, Nic
I had no doubts...really...and as Daniel said above...we can most likely expect a new release shortly related to the euphemistically worded 'product improvements', etc. ;)
Which will be excellent news, indeed. http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sHa_clap4.gif
Regards
Baldrick
I had no doubts...really...and as Daniel said above...we can most likely expect a new release shortly related to the euphemistically worded 'product improvements', etc. ;)
Which will be excellent news, indeed. http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sHa_clap4.gif
Regards
Baldrick
No matter how much a malware improves I always have a peace of mind. WSA has got my back.;)
I hope that the Webroot Team will soon find a solution to fully protect us from this threat.@ wrote:
I just pinged our threat research team and they're already aware of it.
For now, we just should be careful, soon WSA will take care of the rest, as always;)
Roy...what can I say but...http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sSig_youtheman.gif
Cheer, mate...and good to know.
Cheer, mate...and good to know.
Like I said here they always are! 😃 https://community.webroot.com/t5/Security-Industry-News/CryptoLocker-Has-A-Competitor-That-Is-Worse-CryptoDefense/m-p/93028#M4159
Daniel
Daniel
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