{"id":167,"date":"2006-04-28T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T09:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/04\/trojan-writers-coding-for-money-freezes-pc-for-ransom\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:44:00","slug":"trojan-writers-coding-for-money-freezes-pc-for-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/04\/trojan-writers-coding-for-money-freezes-pc-for-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojan Writers Coding for Money &#8211; Freezes PC for Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>A new term has been coined, yes indeed..<\/p>\n<p>Ransomeware<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what they are calling this new threat, infects your PC then freezes it until you send some people some money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Western Union Holdings money transfer service.<\/p>\n<p>A sample of the Trojan horse virus was sent to Sophos, a security vendor, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant. The malware, which Sophos named Troj\/Ransom-A, is one of only a few viruses so far that have asked for a ransom in exchange for releasing control of a computer, Cluley said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty dodgy really, what with being able to buy a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/04\/diy-spyware-get-into-it-for-just-15\/\">Spyware creation kit for $15<\/a>, now people are coding trojans to make money..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once run, the Trojan freezes the computer, displaying a message saying files are being deleted every 30 minutes. It then gives instructions on how to send $10.99 via Western Union to free the computer.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting the control, alt, and delete keys will not affect the bug, the virus writer warns. Sophos provides further details at its Web site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty tight rein, it just shows how sloppy Windows is&#8230;and how powerful the API&#8217;s are&#8230;and how dumb it is to let non-computer literate people using Internet Exploder to run as Administrator..<\/p>\n<p>There was a case similar to this recently.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month, a Trojan emerged that encrypts a user&#8217;s documents and then leaves a file demanding $300 in exchange for the password to access the information. Victims were instructed to send money to one of 99 accounts run by e-gold, a company that runs a money transfer site.<\/p>\n<p>The password, however, was contained on the infected computer. Sophos cracked it and publicly released it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense#New468--><\/p>\n<p>I guess they will get more advanced (sadly) as time goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad] A new term has been coined, yes indeed.. Ransomeware That&#8217;s what they are calling this new threat, infects your PC then freezes it until you send some people some money. A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Western Union Holdings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38,37,142,483,484,115],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}