Researchers Find Three New Ransomware Strains: CryptFlle2, BrLock and MM Locker

  • 28 April 2016
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Threats are simplistic but nevertheless dangerous

Apr 28, 2016 14:40 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu Security researchers from Proofpoint announced yesterday that they had discovered three new ransomware families, called CryptFlle2, BrLock, and MM Locker.
 
These three new ransomware variants are part of a growing global trend that has seen ransomware explode in the past few months, with an ever-growing number of new families discovered each month.
 
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Oh, yippee...more crapware...the miscreants are obviously milking this for all its worth...sadly. :(
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Oh, yippee...more crapware...the miscreants are obviously milking this for all its worth...sadly. :(
You did say at the begining of the year that it was going to be a bad year for Ransomware, you were not wrong were you.
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Yep...unfortunately the pundits who announced that at the end of 2015 where not wrong. :(
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:D 
Good thing we have WSA! :D
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Indeedy doody, Daniel! :D

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