New ransomware program threatens to publish user files

[winchester73]

Ransomware creators have taken their extortion one step further: In addition to encrypting people's private files and demanding money before releasing a key, they now threaten to publish those files on the Internet if they're not paid.

This worrying development has recently been observed in a new ransomware program dubbed Chimera that was documented by the Anti-Botnet Advisory Centre, a service of the German Association of the Internet Industry.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3002120/security/new-ransomware-program-threatens-to-publish-user-files.html

[Frands]

Hi,
A frightful thing! And it is still around despite some says the opposite. There has been some cases in Germany over the last past days. Ransomware don't know about borders, so again please be aware of what you are clicking at. ;)