- Oct 15, 2013
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http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3028Yet another piece of ransomware has surfaced, and this one has several interesting things about it: it expressly avoids targeting US users, and it has a hardcoded list of file types it avoids encrypting.
It's called Crypt0L0cker - the letter "o" has been replaced by zeroes - and, despite the name, the malware has much more in common with TorrentLocker that CryptoLocker.