Cryptolocker out of commission?
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According to this CRN article Cryptolocker specifically has been disabled by the FBI.
Of course this has no effect on copycats.
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This is actually really neat. I would think the copycats that have the infrastructure to support this are busy making money in other ways, and wouldn't risk trying to revamp it.
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Interesting. How true is it I wonder.
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@Dashrender i heard/read that there is a new variant of this that uses different protocols and was changed from a peer to peer to ??(cannot remember right now what connection is being used) to cover their tracks.
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@david.wiese said:
@Dashrender i heard/read that there is a new variant of this that uses different protocols and was changed from a peer to peer to ??(cannot remember right now what connection is being used) to cover their tracks.
I heard they dropped it and are developing an android version (i.e. not just cell phones).
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@MattKing said:
I heard they dropped it and are developing an android version (i.e. not just cell phones).
I'm not sure that would be worth it. Other than photos, and assuming that your infected Android can't translate to an infected office, is there anything on your Android (IOS) device that's so important that you'd pay a ransom for because it's not backed up some place else?
For example, most Android users sync their contacts/calendars with their gmail account. IOS users with iCloud. So beyond photos, do you carry important data that's not on... say the corporate network through something like dropbox (or a more secure version), etc?
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@Dashrender said:
@MattKing said:
I heard they dropped it and are developing an android version (i.e. not just cell phones).
I'm not sure that would be worth it. Other than photos, and assuming that your infected Android can't translate to an infected office, is there anything on your Android (IOS) device that's so important that you'd pay a ransom for because it's not backed up some place else?
For example, most Android users sync their contacts/calendars with their gmail account. IOS users with iCloud. So beyond photos, do you carry important data that's not on... say the corporate network through something like dropbox (or a more secure version), etc?
I completely agree, but to think from a normal consumers standpoint it could pay off for them. I did part time at RadioShack a few years ago and you would be surprised at how many people don't use any of those features. If it happened to me I would just wipe my device, same for my home workstation, but most people would panic i think.
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I think new IOS users have it the best, the device does everything in it's power to make a user use the icloud and perform backups. Android isn't that far behind. you can't install any apps from the Google Play store until you setup a google account, and by default it also starts syncing all that stuff into google's cloud.
This change from desktops/laptops to mobile devices will definitely change this entire environment. The next scary thing - a worm that manages to walk the likes of Google's servers looking at data.
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There's new variants of this coming out all the time. I'm not sure how enforcement is going to be able to stamp them all out.
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@Dashrender said:
The next scary thing - a worm that manages to walk the likes of Google's servers looking at data.
Depending on what data, that could be very scary.
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@Dashrender said:
@MattKing said:
I heard they dropped it and are developing an android version (i.e. not just cell phones).
I'm not sure that would be worth it. Other than photos, and assuming that your infected Android can't translate to an infected office, is there anything on your Android (IOS) device that's so important that you'd pay a ransom for because it's not backed up some place else?
For example, most Android users sync their contacts/calendars with their gmail account. IOS users with iCloud. So beyond photos, do you carry important data that's not on... say the corporate network through something like dropbox (or a more secure version), etc?
Identity Theft.
Don't forget that smartphones are too smart for most of their users, so they leave their data virtually unprotected. -
Anyone coming into this thread and missing the other announcements, here is the product that was once TrueCrypt, now fully restored.... https://ciphershed.org/
