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Cryzip Trojan encrypts data, requests ransom

A security firm has found, what it characterized as, the third known case of a program holding data for ransom. The malicious program searches for 44 different types of files, encrypts them, and then leaves a note for the user to pay $300 for the password to recover the files, according to an analysis by security firm LURHQ.

"Do not try to search for a program what encrypted your information - it is simply do not exists in your hard disk anymore," states the typo-littered ransom note, according to LURHQ. "If you really care about documents and information in encrypted files you can pay using electonic currency $300. Reporting to police about a case will not help you, they do not know password. Reporting somewhere about our e-gold account will not help you to restore files. This is your only way to get yours files back." Cryzip Trojan encrypts data, requests ransom

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