'Ransomware' on the rise.

[anandk]

"Online criminals are turning away from threatening companies with massive cyberattacks in favor of encrypting a victim's data and then demanding money to decrypt it, an antivirus expert has claimed.

Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Russia's Kaspersky Labs, told the RSA Conference here Tuesday that the use of so-called "ransomware Trojans" is a key trend for 2007.

This malicious software infects a PC, encrypts some data and then displays an alert telling the victim to send money to get the decryption key needed to access their data again..."

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[n2casey]

Thx for the info.

[iinfi]

i think something of this kind has been there for a long time ... i v heard abt such things 2-3 years back rite here... but it mite be becoming popular now ...

[rakeshishere]

Nice info ..Thnx for decrypting this info for free

[chesss]

but how on Earth can they get away with this. Surely when a 'victim' reports this to an ethical hacker, he could lay umm.. some kind of "trap" to track the 'blackmailer' when he access the PC again to decrypt the file..
right?

[techtronic]

Novel way to use Encryption and Decryption

[ketanbodas]

ThankYou for sharing.