Dell SecureWorks estimates that CryptoLocker has infected 250,000 victims. The average payout is $300 each, and millions in laundered Bitcoin have been tracked and traced to the ransomware's money ...

Info: The original CryptoLocker infection was disabled on June 2nd, 2014 when Operation Gameover took down its distribution network. Since then there have been numerous ransomware infections that have ...

In our previous blog, Filecoder: Holding your data to ransom, we published information about the resurgence of file-encrypting ransomware since July 2013. While the majority of these ransomware ...

Last week’s article about how to prevent CryptoLocker ransomware attacks generated quite a bit of feedback and lots of questions from readers. For some answers — and since the malware itself has ...

It was mid-October when a new form of malware quietly found its way onto one of the computers of a small business in England, threatened to permanently encrypt most of its files, and then did just ...

Now here’s a first — crooks who realize the importance of customer service. It’s the latest twist in the global CryptoLocker ransomware attack. This diabolically nasty malware locks up all of the ...

Over the past several weeks, a handful of frantic Microsoft Windows users have written in to ask what they might do to recover from PC infections from “CryptoLocker,” the generic name for an ...

Cryptolocker is making headlines for encrypting data and holding it ransom, but leaving some victims in the lurch despite paying out to regain access to their files. It uses strong encryption, making ...

The new CryptoLocker malware threatens to encrypt a user's hard drive unless they pay $300 in Bitcoins. Sophos Bitdefender Labs, an American and Romanian anti-virus company, found that in the week ...

There’s a big threat wiling around on the Internet right now: A particularly nasty piece of ransomware called Cryptolocker. Many, many organizations are being infected with this malware, but ...

The creators of CryptoLocker, a piece of malware that encrypts user data and holds it for ransom, are giving users who removed the malicious program from their computers a second chance to recover ...

The CryptoLocker ransomware is as simple as it is devastating: Once it worms its way onto your system, it encrypts all of your precious files using strong AES-256-bit cryptography, which is virtually ...