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  2. Cryptovirology - Wikipedia

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    It can be used to mount extortion based attacks that cause loss of access to information, loss of confidentiality, and information leakage, tasks which cryptography typically prevents. [ 1 ] The field was born with the observation that public-key cryptography can be used to break the symmetry between what an antivirus analyst sees regarding ...

  3. Ransomware - Wikipedia

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    It is called cryptoviral extortion and it was inspired by the fictional facehugger in the movie Alien. [16] Cryptoviral extortion is the following three-round protocol carried out between the attacker and the victim. [1] [attacker→victim] The attacker generates a key pair and places the corresponding public key in the malware. The malware is ...

  4. Conti (ransomware) - Wikipedia

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    Conti is malware developed and first used by the Russia-based hacking group "Wizard Spider" in December, 2019. [1] [2] It has since become a full-fledged ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation used by numerous threat actor groups to conduct ransomware attacks.

  5. Category:Cryptographic attacks - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Malware. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of ...

  6. Category:Ransomware - Wikipedia

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  7. Category:Extortion - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Extortion is the act of obtaining illegal benefit by the means of ... This list may not reflect recent ...

  8. List of cyberattacks - Wikipedia

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    A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.

  9. CryptoLocker - Wikipedia

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    CryptoLocker typically propagated as an attachment to a seemingly innocuous e-mail message, which appears to have been sent by a legitimate company. [5] A ZIP file attached to an email message contains an executable file with the filename and the icon disguised as a PDF file, taking advantage of Windows' default behaviour of hiding the extension from file names to disguise the real .EXE extension.