And comes with several new features as well.ĭue to the fact that CTB-Locker is currently widespread and successful, CIRCL dug into the malware to better understand its functionality and overall process. While the first implementations of ransomware lacked a correct implementation of the encryption process, the latest incarnation known as CTB-Locker/ Critroni has overcome this limitation. While scareware usually just pretends to harm the user’s computer, ransomware takes the user’s files as hostiles by encrypting them and requests a ransom to be paid to decrypt the files. Scareware and ransomware are a few exceptions. In times of data stealing malware, making direct profit - straight from the wallet of the victim to the pocket of the attacker - is not the usual case.
0 kommentar(er)
