Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Trojan Virus Encrypts your files, holds password ransom for $300

A new Trojan identified as CryZip infects files on a computer by encrypting them, then demands a $300 ransom for the password to unlock the files.

A new directory named "AUTO_ZIP_REPORT.TXT" is created with specific instructions on how to use the E-Gold online currency and payment system to send ransom payments.

The instructions, which are marked by misspellings and poor grammar, contain the following text: "Your computer catched our software while browsing illigal porn pages, all your documents, text files, databases was archived with long enought password. You can not guess the password for your archived files - password lenght is more then 10 symbols that makes all password recovery programs fail to bruteforce it (guess password by trying all possible combinations)."


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