2013-10-17 VentureBeat: Malware holds your encrypted data ransom for Bitcoins

[Arvicco]

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/17/cryptolocker-bitcoin/

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[justusranvier]

The inventors of that malware are quite business savvy, in a thoroughly evil way.

$300 is a price that most people will pay to get their data back.

[SPC_Bitcoin]

they should have shown the bitcoin address in the screen shot, then we could trace it, duh!

[odolvlobo]

The inventors of that malware are quite business savvy, in a thoroughly evil way.

$300 is a price that most people will pay to get their data back.

Well, you can trace a MoneyPak redemption, so they can't be that smart.

[GenTarkin]

BTW , luckily this doesnt affect VSS ... so if you have any recent volume snapshots, which windows makes periodically, all ur files are safely in there, not encrypted =)