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Cryzip Trojan encrypts data, requests ransom
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chiawaikian
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Location: Singapore
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 Posted: 03/16/06 - 09:19 Post subject: Cryzip Trojan encrypts data, requests ransom |
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Cryzip Trojan encrypts data, requests ransom
Published: 2006-03-14
Ransomware is back.
A security firm has found, what it characterized as, the third known case of a program holding data for ransom. The malicious program searches for 44 different types of files, encrypts them, and then leaves a note for the user to pay $300 for the password to recover the files, according to an analysis by security firm LURHQ.
"Do not try to search for a program what encrypted your information - it is simply do not exists in your hard disk anymore," states the typo-littered ransom note, according to LURHQ. "If you really care about documents and information in encrypted files you can pay using electonic currency $300. Reporting to police about a case will not help you, they do not know password. Reporting somewhere about our e-gold account will not help you to restore files. This is your only way to get yours files back." |
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chiawaikian
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Location: Singapore
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| Posted: 03/18/06 - 02:28 Post subject: Trojan extortion blocked by e-gold |
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E-Gold, a company offering digital currency backed by gold, says the creators of the Cryzip trojan did not profit from their cyber extortion. Cryzip encrypted files on infected computers and directed users to pay a ransom of $300 using E-Gold if they wanted the keys to get their data back. E-Gold says its own review process detected the multiple accounts associated with Cryzip, found them suspect, and blocked all payments to those accounts. The spread of Cryzip has been hard to track, since it is spreading slowly to avoid detection by antivirus companies. E-Gold says it cooperates with all legal requests for account data and does not want to be known as a tool for racketeering and other criminal behavior.
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