RansomWare Disassembly Reveals Evolutionary Path

flaws writes "The guys at Secure Science Corporation have written a revealing article demonstrating the relationship with the most recent Ransom-based Trojan (known as Glamour) and some previous data stealing trojans. They include an open source decrypting utility for unlocking your files if infected, and some stats that are a bit disturbing. According to their report, in the past 8 months, 152,000 victims have been infected, and over 14.5 million records were discovered to be logged by the trojan."

My poor pornography :(

[Token_Internet_Girl]

"Dear User: We are currently holding your pornography hostage. Unless you send us $300, you will never see Jenna Jameson and that beer can again."

Re:My poor pornography :(

[Drew McKinney]

It was a beer bottle.

I never did get that picture back...

Re:Noddleware.

[dwarfsoft]

The first trojan was created 6000 years ago and left the garden some years after that. The garden was invaded by Greeks in a wooden horse, or something...

Re:My poor pornography :(

[Token_Internet_Girl]

That makes more sense, I'd think a beer can would cave under the pressure... Oh wait there is no pressure in a gaping cavern... Damn!

In a related story

[Anonymous Coward]

. . .Trojan brand shown to BLOCK Evolutionary Path!

Re:speaking of trojans

[Farmer Tim]

I just bought 72 condoms.

I just bought 144 condoms, and now I'm grossly [google.com] oversexed.

You can prevent encryption by creating a reg key

[jpetts]

The entry should be a REG_DWORD named WinCode in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion location, and should have the value 31337

This post is RSA-13 encrypted

[MillionthMonkey]

Vs lbh jnag gb ernq vg V fryy n qrpelcgbe sbe $300 abj fraq zr zl zbarl!