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Posted by internetbug256, 05-15-2014, 02:01 PM Hello. I have read some news about this new way of threatening people. Excerpt from a notification email received from Dell Secureworks today: A new wave of CryptoLocker is hitting the scene. If you are unfamiliar, CryptoLocker is a malware variant known as Ransomware that attacked and infected more than a million machines last October and again in late November. The malware encrypts critical files on your computer, can spread across your network, and there is no remediation once it has done its dirty work, unless you pay the ransom. USA Today published an article discussing CryptoLocker, in print this morning and on their website here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...minal/8843633/ Our Counter Threat Unit has seen a major uptick this week in CryptoLocker activity and there have already been several reports of active breaches. If you suspect you have been infected, disconnect the infected machine from your network to avoid further damage, and call Dell SecureWorks Incident Response Hotline at 1-877-884-1110. I searched WHT looking for comments and just found only one comment. Have any of you heard about a real case? Also, there is no explicit mention to what platforms are these virus attacking, but I would assume only Windoze machines. Any feedback to help to entight our security will be gladly welcome. Regards.
Posted by xecl, 05-15-2014, 04:48 PM You can read about it in depth here: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/com...e_bleepingest/ That being said, a company I worked for last year got hit by it. As long as you keep backups off site and/or disconnected from a network, you'll be fine if you get with it. If you don't, then good luck!
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