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Talk about having a bad day…
First you get hit with ransomware, demanding you send a Bitcoin payment to anonymous hackers
Then you realise that you don’t have a secure backup of your files, so you’ll have to pay up to have any hope of getting your files back.
And finally, after you have worked out how to buy yourself some Bitcoins online, and as you are attempting to pay the hackers their ransom… the payment gets diverted to someone else entirely.
In short, your files are still encrypted, and you’ve lost all your money.
That’s the ultimate bad-day scenario being described by security researchers who claim to have identified a scam that both steals from ransomware authors and their victims.
Learn more / En savoir plus / mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Coinhive
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=crypto-currency
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=cryptojacking
Talk about having a bad day…
First you get hit with ransomware, demanding you send a Bitcoin payment to anonymous hackers
Then you realise that you don’t have a secure backup of your files, so you’ll have to pay up to have any hope of getting your files back.
And finally, after you have worked out how to buy yourself some Bitcoins online, and as you are attempting to pay the hackers their ransom… the payment gets diverted to someone else entirely.
In short, your files are still encrypted, and you’ve lost all your money.
That’s the ultimate bad-day scenario being described by security researchers who claim to have identified a scam that both steals from ransomware authors and their victims.
Learn more / En savoir plus / mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Coinhive
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=crypto-currency
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=cryptojacking