Malware authors are getting sneaky again, in the latest turn of events they have started encrypting your files and holding them at ransom!
You have to pay up to get the ‘decryptor’ and get access to your files again. This is pretty dangerous…and cunning too. It’s not easily broken either, they are using RSA 1024-bit encryption!
Kaspersky [...]
…finally after three months of inactivity (exams, parties and so) I made some time to write this virus and this article… so for the ones who read this series… ENjOY =)
The Old School Virus
Yeah, I gave up writting infant-b because even the [a] version was full of bugs, and had to logicaly restructure the code [...]
A paper about cracking SHA-1 originally surfaced in 2005, from a fairly reputable scientific source in China, it was widely publicised nor talked about much.
But then recently, just last month China managed to make a wave out of it, almost 2 years after the initial ‘report’.
It was even Slashdotted on January 20th 2007, the article [...]
