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      Oh shit - Cryptolocker Ransomware, Perfect crime/bitcoin

      Wow this is crazy.

      BOSTON (CBS) — It is being called the perfect crime and it has law enforcement around the globe baffled.
      It all starts with a simple email.
      “They are scared and they are angry. It is a real terrible experience for them.”
      Joe Ruthaford is talking about computer users who mistakenly launched a potent internet phishing scheme.
      He recently saw one of those ravaged computers in his Beacon Hill repair shop.
      “It is extremely damaging. It is one of the worst ones.”
      It’s called cryptolocker ransomware.
      Kevin Swindon is with the FBI in Boston.
      “I would think about this particular type of malware as what would happen if your computer was destroyed,” Swindon said.
      In the past 90 days, thousands of people worldwide have opened a seemingly innocuous link to track a holiday package. Suddenly, all the files on their computer are encrypted.
      Joan Goodchild is the editor of “CSO,” Chief Security Officer magazine based in Framingham.
      “This is a criminal operation. They are holding your folders and files ransom. We call this ransomware because that is exactly what it is. You need to pay in order to have access to them once again.”
      And that is exactly what happened last month at the Swansea Police Department.
      Cryptolocker ransomware took over the department’s entire computer system and the police were forced to pay a $750 ransom to get back control.
      As the ransomware takes over your computer, a countdown clock appears and shows victims how long they have to pay up. That means purchasing a key, or software, to reverse the process. And victims must do that using the online virtual currency known as bitcoins.
      “Once you have purchased a bitcoin, then the transaction that you use that bitcoin in is encrypted, and therefore you cannot trace it,” explained Goodchild.
      Swindon says it appears to be the perfect crime.

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      That's fun, sad, and genius.

      I protect myself all around anti scripts and firewalls, never downloading or clicking things I don't know.. It would be tough to get me without using a trusted friends hacked email, and a hell of a pitch.

      The reality is that's got some pretty scary implications. Encryption can be long enough that you could NOT (not with our current computers) crack the encryption before the timer ran out..... I think they need to make it an affordable purchase, like 10-20$ so that people would buy it without weighing the pro's and cons. If its expensive you limit it to only people who have priceless things on the computer with no backups. Otherwise you could just wipe the drive and start clean.

      I think the key then would be the software sends emails from your account to your contact list as a photo album .zip or .rar file.. That would be spread like wildfire...

      I would make a dastardly villain..

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      Some ransomware even uses greendot moneypaks and other reloads. I have heard laot of horror stories about it.
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      This is why you stick to sites you know and never download or click anything from a site or email that you don't know where it came from or hwat it goes to.

      Hell even if it is from a friend and it doesn't look right it probably isn't. I still get emails from my friends accounts that were hacked years ago with strange links in them.

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      I saw something about this, what a nightmare!
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      Should we click?

      You gotta find some hotter hoes than that to bait us here. LMAO

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