RansomWare Disassembly Reveals Evolutionary Path

flaws writes "The guys at Secure Science Corporation have written a revealing article demonstrating the relationship with the most recent Ransom-based Trojan (known as Glamour) and some previous data stealing trojans. They include an open source decrypting utility for unlocking your files if infected, and some stats that are a bit disturbing. According to their report, in the past 8 months, 152,000 victims have been infected, and over 14.5 million records were discovered to be logged by the trojan."

Comments

My poor pornography :(

[Token_Internet_Girl]

"Dear User: We are currently holding your pornography hostage. Unless you send us $300, you will never see Jenna Jameson and that beer can again."

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[Anonymous Coward]

. . .Trojan brand shown to BLOCK Evolutionary Path!

You can prevent encryption by creating a reg key

[jpetts]

The entry should be a REG_DWORD named WinCode in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion location, and should have the value 31337