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Thursday, January 03, 2008

Trojan Delivers 'Ransomware' Demands Payment for Unlocking PCs

As featured in an article on Techworld.com

Following infection by the Backdoor.Win32.Delf.ctk trojan your computer is completely locked and a very official looking screen prompts you to to dial a 900 number for activation.

Sunbelt-Software has posted more information as well as screen shots on their blog

Update: McAfee has posted removal tools and instructions

2 comments:

  1. Hi -- the direct link to the article is

    http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/trojan-delivers-pay-by-phone-extortion.html

    Thanks!

    Alex

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  2. Main link fixed, I was originally reading the techworld article. Looks like a nasty little bug there!

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