A dangerous and sophisticated computer virus alert has police and experts from around the world that encrypts the hard drive of computers and is able to hijack information from a bank, a multinational and even jeopardize an entire country.
Police sources have confirmed that this virus type malware , for which yet no tools you can delete It is a “scam” that began to be detected in 2013 in business and has already infected first laptop of an individual, a Basque citizen.
The Basque police received this week its portable and has been implicated in the investigation of this case, which also involved experts in cybercrime police in several countries, with the help of the best international companies antivirus , trying to bust this malicious code.
The victim receives after a while a ‘snapshot’ in which the ‘abductor’ demands a ransom of between 500 and 6,000 euros to recover the lost information
Experts in computer security and electronic systems company Araba Control System (ICS-CSA), a firm that for 16 years providing solutions to large corporations, government agencies, SMEs and users, working in the network for fraud and stop this kind of virus.
called cryptolockes has been improved since it was detected in 2013 and their new versions encrypts the hard drive and any storage drive , so that the information it contains is blocked or abducted.
The victim receives after a while a ‘ snapshot ‘in which the’ abductor ‘demands a ransom of between 500 and 6,000 euros to recover lost information, money to be paid by currency called Bitcoin , a virtual currency used exclusively on Internet so you can not track.
Although there are thousands of victims who have paid, according to experts in computer and electronic security, must not commit that error because the cracker never going to send the key to retrieve the computer because it would be discovered.
That key or code is an algorithm “military grade”, with more than 30 characters, you use from the Cyrillic to the Chinese, and its sophistication suggests to the police that has been created by genuine experts working group .
Since 2013 the virus has infected computers in companies that have paid to safely recover valuable or sensitive data, but for once it has been detected on the laptop of a particular A neighbor Vitoria who has used CSI-CSA and filed a complaint with the Basque police.
cryptolockes could ‘sneak’ on your PC in many ways: to download a song , a movie or opening an email
The software of this company have made a copy of the hard disk to investigate this software apparently comes from Romania , but can it be “a country gateway” and exit from somewhere else.
These crackers that, unlike the hackers , are engaged in “doing evil” design virus or tap phones to get money, they feel the untouchables time because they know for a successful An Interpol warrant the “paperwork” before it is too long , judicial authorization is required and the process can take over a year explains computer expert CSI-CSA, who reveals that “there are many people working on it” and maybe “in two or three months” can be disabled.
The computer expert CSI-CSA, who reveals that “there are many people working on it” and maybe “in two or three months” can disable
The Kaspersky Lab international group, based in Moscow and presence in 200 countries, achieved with its powerful antivirus detect early versions of cryptolockes , but not eliminate, but now been perfected .
“This is very serious. It is a global problem . Those who handle this virus have great power “and no one knows” what may be your goal, “because if they attack such a bank and encrypt all your bills customers could not get their money back until the reestablishment security and “would drop in the stock market. It would be like a ‘yard’, “says the expert.
If you are sold on the black market could also serve to sink a business competition. In fact, some firms have had to start from scratch after a attack of this virus, even “can stop a country” Warning.
Powerless scope of this scam, computer advise users have installed antivirus internet and firewall payment date one hundred percent and backup of all files that have value.
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