Bitdefender Labs Unveils Bitcoin Ransomware Solution
Bitcoin ransomware has been a thorn in the eye of many digital currency enthusiasts, and security experts have had a hard time coming up with solutions. Throughout the years, there have been various ransomware strains, all of which brought something new to the table and making it harder to be removed from an infected computer. But the latest solution by Bitdefender may put an end to most of the misery. A Solution To Bitcoin Ransomware? It is hard to ignore the damage caused by Bitcoin ransomware over the past few years, as there have been so many attacks against individual users,....
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One of Bitdefender's servers has been hacked by DetoxRansome. The hacker claimed to have stolen some of the login credentials of Bitdefender's users. He has also threatened to release the details of the users if the sum of $15,000 is not paid as ransom. The breach has been confirmed by Bitdefender, an antivirus software provider. Bitdefender, however, claimed that the total amount of data that was leaked is less than 1 percent of its users' data. They further stated that the login credentials that were compromised were those of accounts belonging to small to medium sized businesses. They....
Over the course of 2015, many individuals and companies have been affected by ransomware. While this may have nothing to do with Bitcoin at first glance, there have been a few cases where the ransomware could only be removed by paying a certain fee in Bitcoin. But those days may be over now, as a decryption toolkit for various types of ransomware has been made publicly available, free of charge. CryptoLocker and CoinVault Ransomware. Two types of ransomware making headlines all across the world in recent months are called CryptoLocker and CoinVault. Both types of ransomware operate, in the....
BitDefender, an award winning internet security Software Company based in Romania has fallen victim to a data breach which leaked the company’s customer data including usernames and passwords to an anonymous hacker. The customer data stolen by a hacker with an online alias “DetoxRansome” told Forbes that all information including passwords and usernames were unencrypted. According to “DetoxRansome,” the usernames and passwords were in plain text. However, if it were encrypted, it would have been extremely difficult to decrypt. Fortunately, the data stolen accounts to “less than 1% of the....
Petya is one of the most recent strains of Bitcoin ransomware that has been wreaking havoc in various countries. But that may be coming to an end, now that security experts from Leostone have come up with a software solution to bypass the ransom demand. Bypassing The Petya Bitcoin Ransom Demand. Despite only being in circulation for little over two weeks so far, the Petya Bitcoin ransomware has proven to be particularly nasty so far. Not only does this malware encrypt files on the computer itself, but it performs the same action on any backups the user might have. In the end, this forces....