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US police department pays $750 CryptoLocker Trojan ransom demand

2013-11-20 15:33:03| InfoWorld: Top News

A U.S. police department was so determined to get back important files that had been encrypted by the rampaging CryptoLocker Trojan it decided to pay the ransom being demanded by the criminals.

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Prepare and protect - kidnap and ransom in the energy industry

2013-11-04 01:00:00| Power Technology

In the last year incidences of mass kidnappings in Algeria and Nigeria dominated the headlines. But the problem of kidnapping is far more widespread than is reported, especially in the global power industry, says kidnap insurance broker Jenny Carter-

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Hackers Demand Ransom for Hijacked Androids

2013-07-30 18:25:55| TechNewsWorld

Ransomware has made the jump from personal computers to the Android world. Android.FakeAV.C, a new breed of ransomware, has turned up in Asia -- almost half of it in India and Indonesia -- according to an alert by Bitdefender security researcher Liviu Arsene. Mobile ransomware works much like its PC kin. In a PC, a malware program seizes control of a computer and demands a ransom for its release.

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Apple browsers targeted by simple JavaScript ransom scam

2013-07-17 16:06:37| InfoWorld: Top News

Ransom attackers have finally made the jump from Windows to the Mac with news of a stunningly simple hack that tries to trick browser users into paying a $300 fine using a simple JavaScript routine. The attack noticed by security firm Malwarebytes is a mixture of sleight of hand and social engineering that the firm reports that it will work against several Mac-based browsers (using an OSX interpreter) with JavaScript enabled.

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