More than 12k CryptoLocker victims in less than a week
The researchers with security technology company Bitdefender Labs revealed that more than 12,000 victims have been claimed in less than a full week by a nasty piece of malware known as CryptoLocker, which has been locking up computers with ransomware over the past couple of months.
“CryptoLocker servers are changed very often – it is rare that a command-and-control server remains online for more than a week,” according to a Bitdefender Labs post, which explains the reason for this is to avoid getting shut down by authorities. “However, once it has been reverse engineered, security researchers can pre-register the relevant domains and count connection attempts.”
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