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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. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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    This article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject. Please help improve the article by providing more context for the reader, especially: background information on wallet cryptography and central exchange vulnerabilities related to security of blockchain assets.

  6. 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.

  7. Locky - Wikipedia

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    Enabling macros and opening the document launch the Locky virus. [6] Once the virus is launched, it loads into the memory of the users system, encrypts documents as hash.locky files, installs .bmp and .txt files, and can encrypt network files that the user has access to. [7]

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  9. AIDS (Trojan horse) - Wikipedia

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    AIDS replaces the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, which would then be used by AIDS to count the number of times the computer has booted. Once this boot count reaches 90, AIDS hides directories and encrypts the names of all files on drive C: (rendering the system unusable), at which time the user is asked to 'renew the license' and contact PC Cyborg Corporation for payment (which would involve sending US ...

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