"Give me 500 BTC or your girls' volleyball season schedule gets deleted"

[bryant.coleman]

lol..... the FBI went ballistic a few months earlier, saying that they had shutdown the Crypto-locker completely. Seems like some of the guys behind that trojan created another one in no time. Proves once more that Russian hackers are much more intelligent than the old farts of FBI.

[MegaFall]

Proves once more that Russian hackers are much more intelligent than the old farts of FBI.

You mean the same FBI that served a search warrant on a hosting company for a clients server and then preceded to take all the servers in the enclosure/rack because they thought that "server" meant the entire enclosure?

[countryfree]

This comes from a kid. An adult would know a school doesn't have that kind of money around.

I doubt it, this an elementary school. The oldest kid in this district is probably no more than 11, 12 tops. I couldn't see somebody that young knowing what the hell they're doing when it comes to implanting a virus on an entire network.

Hadn't noticed this was an elementary school. Well, maybe the older brother of some pupil...

[Kprawn]

It was most probably a variant of the CryptoLocker  Most Anti-virus companies already have a solution for it } -->  http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2013-091122-3112-99&tabid=3

You have to be stupid if you target soft targets like schools.. people get VERY emmotional when kids are involved and the response to this is mostly severe. In this case the FBI was brought in and it created a media circus.

You paint a target on your back, when you do things like that. This sounds like a Script kiddie prank gone wrong. If you learn anything from this.... it has to be .....Make regular backups. 

[Snail2]

Well, the person who did this surely has no idea about the funding of schools.