The thieves have collected millions of dollars and variants and copycats abound. There are methods to prevent it from running, but the social engineering is so good that many people are duped. CryptoLocker then offers to unlock the data for a fee - around $400. IntroductionĬryptoLocker is a virus known as “ ransomware.” CryptoLocker is a scheme to trick people into opening attachment in a seemingly trustworthy message and executing the Trojan that encrypts data on the victim’s hard drive and connected drives. Paper submitted for my Master’s in Cybersecurity and Computer Forensics at Utica College, 2014.
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