Hackers Breaking New Ground With Ransomware

See Also - Win32/Virlock: First self reproducing Ransomware raises its head  and New crypto-ransomware encrypts video games files
 
13th March 2015  By Jai Vijayan
 
The tools and tactics being used to go after victims reveal growing sophistication, and gamers need to look out, security researchers say.
 The enormous success which hackers have had extracting millions of dollars from individuals and businesses using ransomware appears to be driving more sophisticated tools and tactics from them.
This week researchers sounded the alert on two recent ransomware families that break ground in different ways.
 
Full Article