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- New Gpcode (encryption) ransomware speading via botnet
- New Gpcode encryption ransomware speading via botnetIt's a 15 minute problem at bestLoad your most recent C drive image, then restore any lost files from your last backup. What's the problem?It'll help teach people to BACK UP their dataSo maybe there's a silver lining, who knows? For me,...
- Tags: GpCode
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- How to recover GPcode encrypted files?
- How to recover GPcode encrypted files?How to recover ....Hello.A brute force atack is very hard but .... If I know the algoritm to generate pseudorandom numbers in the GPCode Itself and a Rosetta Stone with the adecuate size I think that is possible to decript the entire disk.The rosetta Stone...
- Tags: GPCode
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- How to recover GPcode encrypted files?
- Got backups? In response to the security community's comments on the futile attempt to directly attack the 1024 bit RSA keys using distributed computing, Kaspersky Labs are now reasonably recommending that affected end users lacking backups of their encrypted data, take advantage of data recovery tools : Currently, it's...
- Tags: Data Recovery, Backup, Malware, File, GPcode, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Who's behind the GPcode ransomware?
- Who's behind the GPcode ransomware?Any way we can performa distributed computing for cracking these keys? like folding at home? (ps. make it proxy compaitble.)even betterarrest the scumbags and put them in jail until they release the code and any extorted money.Just track the damn funds and grab the...
- Tags: GPCode
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Who's behind the GPcode ransomware?
- In one of these moments when those who are supposed to know, don't know, and those who don't realize what they know aren't reaching the appropriate parties, it's time we get back to the basics - finding out who's behind GPcode, and trying to tip them on the consequences of...
- Tags: Payment, Encryption, GPcode, John Dow-ish Daniel Robertson, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Blackmail ransomware returns with 1024-bit encryption key
- Blackmail ransomware returns with 1024-bit encryption keyWhich files are encrypted?Is it just the user folders? Or all files on the hard drive?I was wondering the best way to backup data to recover from this. Would data need to be backed up on a different hard drive? Internal or external?Data is...
- Tags: encryption key
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
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- New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption
- You forgot to mention....which OSs it affects! Or is it based on something multi-platform like Java?Look at the bigger size version of the screenshot, it's all in thereA lot of russian characters and...YES, you guessed it right, the word "windows" prominently displayed in red in the title.Who would ever thought...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, LoroBot, decryption, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption
- Researchers from CA have intercepted a new ransomware variant encrypting popular file extensions (.zip; .rar; .pdf; .rtf; .txt; .jpg; .jpeg; .waw; .mp3; .db; .xls; .docx; .xlsx; .doc) and demanding a $100 for the decryption software. According to the message which replaces the desktop's background upon execution, the...
- Tags: Decryption, SMS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- New ransomware locks PCs, demands premium SMS for removal
- UPDATE: Another variant has been detected. Following the recently uncovered hybrid scareware with elements of ransomware, and last year's GPcode ransomware attacks, cybercriminals have once again demonstrated their interest in the concept of ransomware. PandaLabs is reporting on a newly discovered ransomware variant which...
- Tags: PC, Malware, SMS, Cybercriminal, Attack, PandaLabs, Dr.Web, Ransomware, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Cellular Phones, Security, Viruses And Worms, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Scareware meets ransomware: "Buy our fake product and we'll decrypt the files"
- A newly pushed scareware called File Fix Professional 2009 (FileFix Pro 2009), has the potential to influence the way in which spreaders of rogue security software optimize their revenue in the future - by encrypting critical business files and requiring a $50 purchase of the fake...
- Tags: Network, Security Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Security, Viruses And Worms, Investment, Finance, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Open Source, SAP AG, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Defcon, 3G, Notebooks, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- New Gpcode (encryption) ransomware speading via botnet
- There are confirmed reports on a new version of the Gpcode ransomware being spread via a botnet. According to Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab my employer, the Trojan encrypts files on an infected machine (AES-256) and leaves a text file named crypted.txt with...
- Tags: Encryption, File, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Tags: Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- DefenseWall HIPS 2.45 (Windows)
- DefenseWall HIPS protects you from malicious software (spyware, adware, keyloggers, and rootkits) when you surf the Internet. Using the next generation proactive protection technologies, DefenseWall helps you achieve a maximum level of protection against malicious software, while not demanding any special knowledge or ongoing online signature updates. DefenseWall divides all...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Malicious Software, SoftSphere Technologies, DefenseWall HIPS, Viruses And Worms, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Software downloads 2008-08-06
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- It's 2008, and companies perhaps rich on VC money to waste in a guerilla marketing tactic for generating viral buzz, still talk and act as the utopian "unbreakable encryption" algorithm is the panacea of security, or the "Hackers Hell: Privacy That Can't Be Compromised" as they pitch it. ...
- Tags: Passphrase, Malware, Encryption Algorithm, Encryption, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- News to know: Adobe; XP era ends; Enterprise 2.0; Apple
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: How to recover GPcode encrypted files? Larry Dignan: Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along XP era ends: Will Vista step up? Techmeme eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball? MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole;...
- Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Investment, Finance, Management, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- News to know: Firefox 3; Patch Tuesday; SocialCalc
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: All systems are go for Firefox 3 launch; RC3 needed for Mac OSX only Nate McFeters: What's wrong with an exploit being sexy? Ryan Naraine: Critical IE, Bluetooth, DirectX flaws highlight MS Patch...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, CIO, Mozilla Firefox, 3G, Apple Mac OS X, Desktop Virtualization, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Internet, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Blackmail ransomware returns with 1024-bit encryption key
- Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab my employer have intercepted a new variant of Gpcode, a malicious virus that encrypts important files on an infected desktop and demands payment for a key to recover the data. ...
- Tags: Encryption, Private Key, File, Key, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
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