Cryptolocker: Menace of 2013

[Gnosis]

Security software company Symantec this month named Cryptolocker the “Menace of the Year”.

Bitdefender logged over 12,000 victims in a week last month. That's not huge on a global scale but it should be a big enough number to make businesses pay attention.

While relatively few have been affected so far, many of those that have succumbed experienced a world of pain, as the victim stories below will attest.

Backup is the key to recovering from a Cryptolocker lockout.
For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, Cryptolocker is a variant of ransomware that unlike its predecessors does not work by locking a computer. Instead, it encrypts all data and demands a ransom in Bitcoins for the user to regain access.

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