by John Zorabedian on June 18, 2014
"Cryptowall and CryptodefenseNew variants of file-encrypting ransomware called Cryptowall and Cryptodefense have been popping up since at least April 2014.
SophosLabs threat researcher Anand Ajjan says Cryptowall has the same code as Cryptodefense, and only differs in the name.
If you see a message like the one below, you're in trouble - many, if not most, of the data files on your hard drive or any connected drives will be scrambled, and it's simply not practicable to crack the encryption used by the crooks.
(You don't have to pay, of course. Despite losing data, police in the New Hampshire town of Durham showed a bit of public resistance to the crooks, announcing that they were "definitely not paying any ransom.")
The message gives instructions on how to use the Tor anonymizing proxy to access a website where you can pay to unlock your files:"
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