New Virus CryptoLocker

[Aerosol]

With the rise of virtual currency Bitcoin appeared and viruses that use it. CryptoLocker is one of them.

He was identified and studied Romanians from Bitdefender and now a new study has emerged: 250,000 victims were infected in the UK only.Dell SecureWorks has identified 250,000 victims of the virus, and the average payment was $ 300. What is it? It's a ransomware virus type that locks the computer and ask for a reward for his release. Lately, the payments do not use normal money, but Bitcoin because they are anonymous. CryptoLocker comes in the mail attachments, files on Dropbox, or other links that seem innocent. He locks the computer and requires redemption Year 72 hours. So far, the virus has not been annihilated. 250,000 infected systems were victims in the first 100 days of the introduction CryptoLocker. According to Dell studiuli in one day 771 were identified ransom of 1.1 million dollars. This happened on December 15. About Cryptolocker Cryptolocker threats, blocking user access to computer files and asks for money in exchange for unlocking their affects in Romania, both organizations and individual users, causing significant damage. According to data available Bitdefender products installed in Romania are identified every day 3-4 of infection attempts blocked, and their frequency is increasing. The virus was first reported here about three weeks ago. The threat spreads through attachments in spam emails once downloaded and accessed Cryptolocker running computer virus or by accessing compromised websites.

'' The danger posed this software is that it can be inaccessible important files on organizations, such as financial accounting and other critical documents.

Furthermore, the encryption scheme used is very strong. Basically once the affected computer user will not be able to recover the encrypted data only after payment of the amount requested. This means , however, attackers funding and a contribution to strengthening the extension system and computer threat ,'' said Catalin Cosoi , Chief Security Strategist Bitdefender. Cryptolocker uses an encryption mechanism very well developed that works on any type of file. Strong encryption public key and decrypt the private key are technically impossible to recover the data on the infected computer . Once installed in the computer , the virus autoadaug? the list of programs that the operating system loads them every time the user connects . Infiltrate the system, Cryptolocker trying to establish a connection with one of the web servers which is controlled , and it generates a public and a private key to encrypt the files and then ask for money from the victims .