This posting is an update to the Torrentlocker blog posting of October 15. For guidance on containment and recovery, see the previous blog post. Financial aspects Payments for the ransom have to be done in Bitcoins. We have identified 7 Bitcoin addresses that received ransom payments. The total income as of the 21th of October … Continue reading Update on the Torrentlocker ransomware
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New Torrentlocker variant active in the Netherlands
Introduction The Netherlands was hit with a new spam run designed to spread a cryptolocker variant known as torrentlocker from Monday October 13th 2014 onwards. Please note that torrentlocker appears to present itself to victims as cryptolocker in all cases. Fox-IT now receives multiple reports of new victims in the Netherlands and we are currently … Continue reading New Torrentlocker variant active in the Netherlands
Update on DecryptCryptoLocker
A month ago Fox-IT and FireEye announced the DecryptCryptoLocker service, which provides free private keys to victims of the CryptoLocker Malware. We decided not only to share the information with victims for free, but also provide a website that provides the right key to victims, saving them a lot of time and effort. For each … Continue reading Update on DecryptCryptoLocker
CryptoLocker ransomware intelligence report
In the beginning of September 2013, the CryptoLocker malware variant appeared in the wild, spread exclusively by the infamous P2P ZeuS (aka Gameover ZeuS) malware. CryptoLocker had a simple purpose: to act as ransomware, encrypting important files such as images and documents, and then asking the victim for money to unlock the files. Image source: … Continue reading CryptoLocker ransomware intelligence report