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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. WannaCry ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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    A security researcher [83] [84] initially posted a tweet [85] referencing code similarities between WannaCry and previous malware. The cybersecurity companies [ 86 ] Kaspersky Lab and Symantec have both said the code has some similarities with that previously used by the Lazarus Group [ 87 ] (believed to have carried out the cyberattack on Sony ...

  5. Category:Ransomware - Wikipedia

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  6. 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.

  7. Trouble Paying Your Malware Ransom? Crooks Launch ... - AOL

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    It's the latest twist in the global CryptoLocker ransomware attack. This diabolically nasty malware locks up all of the victim's personal. By Herb Weisbaum Here's a first: Crooks who understand ...

  8. Gameover ZeuS - Wikipedia

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    GameOver ZeuS (GOZ), also known as peer-to-peer (P2P) ZeuS, ZeuS3, and GoZeus, is a Trojan horse developed by Russian cybercriminal Evgeniy Bogachev. Created in 2011 as a successor to Jabber Zeus, another project of Bogachev's, the malware is notorious for its usage in bank fraud resulting in damages of approximately $100 million and being the main vehicle through which the CryptoLocker ...

  9. Clop (cyber gang) - Wikipedia

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    Clop avoids targets in former Soviet countries and its malware can't breach a computer that operates primarily in Russian. [2] In 2023, Clop uses more and more pure extortion approaches with "encryption-less ransomware" that skips the encryption process but still threatens to leak data if a ransom is not paid. This technique allows threat ...