Cryzip New "Randsom Trojan"

Looks like we have a new trojan on the loose which is known as "Cryzip". It scans your harddrive for all those "document type" files (eg: .doc, .pdf, .mdb, etc) and creates an encrypeted copy of it on your harddrive. It then deletes the originals and the encrypted files are left within [file name]_CRYPT_.ZIP. It also leaves a .txt file telling the owner of the computer how to pay the randsom and decrypt the file so that he can get his documents back. Looks like the new wave of what people are calling "randsomware".

Links for help and details about this new trojan provided below

trendMicro :

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_CRYZIP.A

Update: if anyone has this virus the password is now available. It is "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"

source [lostcoders.net]

In the Beginning

Hello Everyone!

This is now officially my first ever blog at blogger. In the near future, I will be posting on issues related to computers and the WWW, issues on the world and its why's and how's and also about myself and what I will be up to in the near future and will try and keep this space as up to date as possible!

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AC