Ransomware: playing on your fears
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Date | 2012 / 16 Mar 2012 |
Editor/Conference | Microsoft |
Link | http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/03/16/ransomware-playing-on-your-fears.aspx blog.technet.com (blog.technet.com Archive copy) |
Author | Raymond Roberts |
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Abstract
“ The last two years have seen an increase in malware which takes control of, and holds hostage an infected machine, locking the user out until a payment of some form can be extorted. This threat type is also known as 'ransomware'.
Various tactics have been used by the malware writers in an attempt to intimidate users into paying a ransom in order to get back control of an infected machine. We wrote a blog post last December that describes malware extortion tactics, here.
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@misc{Lua error: Cannot create process: proc_open(/dev/null): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted2012BFR941, editor = {Microsoft}, author = {Raymond Roberts}, title = {Ransomware: playing on your fears}, date = {16}, month = Mar, year = {2012}, howpublished = {\url{http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/03/16/ransomware-playing-on-your-fears.aspx blog.technet.com}}, }