The Apple device users are receiving the messages that they have to pay the demanded money to unlock their phones or iPad. This scam is reportedly coming from the New Zealand and Australia. The victims are mainly located in the Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, and Western Australia….
Australian Company pays 3k Ransom to hackers
Abc.net.au has reported that an Australian based company have been at the center of a extortion case after hackers took control of their computer systems. View full post on Cyber War News View full post on The Cyber Wars
Ransom malware merged with bank Trojan in new attack
Adding injury to insult, fraudsters have merged the phenomenon of ransom Trojans with banking malware, producing a hybrid that demands money before attempting to steal a user’s logins. View full post on malware – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
‘Police ransom’ Trojans the work of single Russian gang, Trend finds
The wave of ‘police Trojan’ ransomware that has hit PC users across the developed world in the last year is probably the work of a single highly-active Russian cybercrime gang, a forensic analysis by Trend Micro has concluded. First detected in 2011, there have been numerous police ransom attacks in…
Ransom Trojans spreading beyond Russian heartland
Ransom malware has moved out of its traditional Russian market and is starting to become a measurable problem in countries such as the US and Germany, figures from Trend Micro have confirmed. As reported by Trend’s Smart Protection Network cloud, the US headed the list with just over 2,000 infections,…
Hacker posts Symantec source code after ransom demand fails
A hacker has released stolen source code from Symantec Corp., one of the largest computer security firms, after a phony set of ransom negotiations failed, according to the company. The source code is part of a Symantec product called pcAnywhere, which allows users to log into and control home or…
New ransom Trojan cons victims with ‘trial’ version
Researchers at security company BitDefender have discovered a new ransom Trojan that scrambles its victims’ data before cheekily offering them a ‘trial’ version of the software to prove its ability to successfully unlock files. For the most part, Trojan.Crypt.VB.U and its variants behave much like any other ransom scam. Once…
Criminals impersonate UK police to spread ransom Trojan
The recent spate of ransom malware has taken a strange turn with the news that criminals are impersonating the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service in an attempt to persuade victims to pay a fine for being caught accessing extremist or porn websites. After apparently being alerted by members of the public…