It seems that cybercriminals have yet to tire of creating crypto-ransomware malware. Since the start of 2015, we have spotted several variants of crypto-ransomware plague the threat landscape. In January, the Australia-New Zealand region was beset by variants of TorrentLocker. But we soon discovered that TorrentLocker infections were not limited to that region; Turkey, Italy,…
Read MoreCrypto-ransomware is once again upping the ante with its routines. We came across one crypto-ransomware variant that’s combined with spyware—a first for crypto-ransomware. This development just comes at the heels of the discovery that ransomware has included file infection to its routines. CryptoWall 3.0 We first encountered CryptoWall as the payload of spammed messages last year. We…
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