Good people of OC3D,
A new ransomware is out in the wild and it is very very well made and pure evil.
It is said to be spread via Social media, attachments, and "too good to be true" downloads (eg. "just download this and it will give you a free windows key").
It basically encrypts a large part of your files using the AES algorithm, promts you to pay ~100USD to get the private key so you can decrypt all the files again.
Disabling it and removing it is very easy however that still leaves you with a ton of encrypted files which are more or less impossible to decrypt even with modern computers.
Read more here: or search for "Cryptolock" or "Win32/Crilock.A." in google.
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2013/09/10/cryptolocker-a-new-ransomware-variant/
Just a heads up.
A new ransomware is out in the wild and it is very very well made and pure evil.
It is said to be spread via Social media, attachments, and "too good to be true" downloads (eg. "just download this and it will give you a free windows key").
It basically encrypts a large part of your files using the AES algorithm, promts you to pay ~100USD to get the private key so you can decrypt all the files again.
Disabling it and removing it is very easy however that still leaves you with a ton of encrypted files which are more or less impossible to decrypt even with modern computers.
Read more here: or search for "Cryptolock" or "Win32/Crilock.A." in google.
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2013/09/10/cryptolocker-a-new-ransomware-variant/
Just a heads up.
