Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has issued an “urgent alert” to computer users about the threat posed by the CryptoLocker malware. The NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit has warned that online ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until today, Microsoft Windows users who’ve been unfortunate enough to have the personal files on their computer encrypted and held for ransom by a nasty strain of malware called CryptoLocker have ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

The soaring value of bitcoins has prompted an update in CryptoLocker, the malware that encrypts the contents of victims' entire hard drives until they pay a ransom. As Ars reported in September, ...