Ransomware: playing on your fears

(Publication) Google search: [1]

Ransomware: playing on your fears
Botnet	Gema
Malware	Gema_(bot)
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 16 Mar 2012
Editor/Conference	Microsoft
Link	http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/03/16/ransomware-playing-on-your-fears.aspx blog.technet.com (blog.technet.com Archive copy)
Author	Raymond Roberts
Type

Abstract

“ The last two years have seen an increase in malware which takes control of, and holds hostage an infected machine, locking the user out until a payment of some form can be extorted. This threat type is also known as 'ransomware'.

Various tactics have been used by the malware writers in an attempt to intimidate users into paying a ransom in order to get back control of an infected machine. We wrote a blog post last December that describes malware extortion tactics, here.

Bibtex

 @misc{2012BFR941,
   editor = {Microsoft},
   author = {Raymond Roberts},
   title = {Ransomware: playing on your fears},
   date = {16},
   month = Mar,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/03/16/ransomware-playing-on-your-fears.aspx blog.technet.com}},
 }