With the new hacking tricks, computer users face the latest threat is not the destruction of data or password is stolen, but the individual files are effectively locked, need to pay 200 U.S. dollars via the Internet before reopening.This phenomenon has appeared in San Diego, a network security company.
This 名叫西曼特克 encountered by a customer of this online extortion, the customer's text files, pictures and tables are encrypted lock, also received an e-mail address that contains a notice, then hackers useThe e-mail address required to pay 200 U.S. dollars, in exchange for the password to open locked documents.Ximanteke company said, it's like someone broke into your home to something of value received into a safe, but do not tell you how it was.This problem is troublesome, but has not yet pose a serious threat, there is no evidence that this network acts of extortion have been flooded.
The FBI believes that this network is different from the other network extortion extortion.The main network security and antivirus companies are this week to their corporate users and individual users to upgrade security software to prevent against such attacks.Some scholars believe that it looks completely malicious behavior.Despite the adoption of technology for the customer to open a locked file, but the fear is that this software upgrade may be more difficult to deal with.In general, network attacks through the evolution of the software will become increasingly powerful, hackers will continue to block attacks on software vulnerabilities, it may eventually have to pay.
In the latest case, when a computer user to browse to a malicious Web site, due to loopholes in Web browser, the user's computer will be infected.15 kinds of data files will be locked, attached a notice to computer users to send messages to a specific web site to buy the password to open locked documents.In the reply message, the attacker requires a computer user to an Internet bank account wire 200.
Former FBI agent, is to conduct computer crime investigations for the company's Aidesite Rhodes said the ransom was set at a relatively low, only 200 U.S. dollars, which may be interested in behavior in order to encourage victims to Delivery, and do not want to leadto the police, while the more common Internet fraud, the hacker asked for a lot of money, and threatened to attack commercial Web sites, steal customer information, interference with business activities.