Neowin News Feed for: Crimeware

'nRansomware' demands nudes from its victims instead of bitcoin

Dreyer Smit — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:52:01 +0000

With bitcoin becoming the go-to cryptocurrency for attackers, a new type of malware has popped up that demands nude photographs of the victim as payment to decrypt personal files. Read more...

Petya ransomware now stronger than ever, brings a friend along

Justin Luna — Sat, 14 May 2016 03:20:01 +0000

A new type of ransomware has recently been discovered, and is bundled along with the Petya ransomware. If a user rejects admin privileges, a backup malware will kick in, encrypting a user's files. Read more...

Petya ransomware reportedly encrypts hard drives, manipulates operating system boot process

Ian Ginos — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:32:01 +0000

A new type of ransomware has been discovered that encrypts entire hard drives instead of individual files. Dubbed Petya, the ransomware also encrypts data during the operating system boot process. Read more...

Poorly coded ransomware forgets your decryption key, locking up your data forever

Justin Luna — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:16:01 +0000

A new ransomware called Power Worm is currently victimizing users on the internet. However, due to a coding error, it leaves a victim's computer files permanently encrypted. Read more...

CryptoWall 4.0 ransomware makes it increasingly difficult to recover encrypted data

Ian Ginos — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:12:01 +0000

The latest version of the CryptoWall ransomware now deletes all restore points on an infected system and introduces new changes to intimidate users and to avoid detection by anti-malware software. Read more...