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New Variant of GpCode Back – Still Demanding Ransom Money to Free Your Data

December 4, 2010 By Ali Jahangiri

A new variant of the troublesome and harmful GpCode trojan has been detected by Kaspersky Lab. Tagged as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.GpCode.ax this trojan, which spreads via malicious websites and P2P networks, encrypts files on the infected computer and then asks for money in order to decrypt the files. Such trojans are of known as ransomware or cryptovirology.

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Filed Under: Cryptography, cybersecurity Tagged With: AES-256, GpCode trojan, hard disk encryption trojan, Ransom.Win32.GpCode.ax, ransomware, RSA-1024, Trojan, Trojan.PGPCoder, Virus.Win32.Gpcode

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