Hotmail user/s logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information, according to Websense. Websense said this scam is a variant of ransomware, which is a malicious program that encrypts documents on the victim's computer and asks for a payment in order to decrypt the files.
*www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa...h_extortion_scam/0,130061744,339272681,00.htm
David Emm, senior technology consultant at Kaspersky UK, said: "Within a corporation, the IT department normally backs up files. The danger is where attacks are launched at smaller businesses (without IT departments) and individuals".
another classic case of
ransomware at work !
*www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa...h_extortion_scam/0,130061744,339272681,00.htm
David Emm, senior technology consultant at Kaspersky UK, said: "Within a corporation, the IT department normally backs up files. The danger is where attacks are launched at smaller businesses (without IT departments) and individuals".
another classic case of
ransomware at work !
... for those who did not know.
