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'Perfect' ransomware is the scariest threat to your PC |
March 09, 2014
Nothing spurs malware development like success, and that’s likely to be the case in the coming months with ransomware.Ransomware has been around for around a decade, but it wasn’t until last fall, with the introduction of CryptoLocker, that the malevolent potential of the bad app category was realized. In the last four months of 2013 alone, the malicious software raked in some $5 million, according to Dell SecureWorks. Previously, it took ransomware purveyors an entire year to haul in that kind of money.
So is it any wonder that the latest iteration of this form of digital extortion has attracted the attention of cyber criminals? A compromised personal computer for a botnet or Distributed Denial of Service attack is worth about a buck to a byte bandit, explained Johannes B. Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute. “With ransomware, the attacker can easily make $100 and more,” he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2105389/perfect-ransomware-is-the-scariest-threat-to-your-pc.html#tk.rss_all
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