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CryptoLocker ransom Trojan infected 250,000 PCs
2013-12-20 13:00:19| InfoWorld: Top News
The feared CryptoLocker ransom Trojan has infected at least a quarter of a million PCs worldwide, a success rate probably generating somewhere in the low millions of dollars in ransom payments, a new analysis by Dell SecureWorks has estimated. Alarming reports of the chaos sown by CryptoLocker have been easy to come by, less so hard numbers about the scale of what has surely been the malware story of 2013.
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