Showing posts with label Tox-Viruses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tox-Viruses. Show all posts

Friday, 12 June 2015

Ransomware Focused Specifically On Pedophiles


The Tox-ransomware deployed published in May was initially specifically against pedophiles, know as the designer. Recently announced the author, who claims to be a student teenager, he decided to stop the development of Tox platform and offered for sale to.

Tox is a free kit to experience ransomware. Like other ransomware encrypts files and then demands ransom Tox to decrypt it.The website which is offered Tox is on the Tor network, and generating the ransomware is free. However, the automaker received 30% of the ransom was earned through the ransomware, with the remaining 70% went to the party that spread the ransomware.

The first users of Tox had to cater to pedophiles, because the simple victims. "Pedophiles were the prime target in the beginning, because it is easy to make a file that claims" hot pics "contain," the ransomwaremaker opposite Vocativ . In the first week after Tox went live, he had more than 1,000 users and infections. The maker decided to own saying stop because the business model of ransomware is contrary to his values.

Friday, 5 June 2015

Tox-Maker Ransomware Quits And Is Looking For Buyer


The author of the recently published Tox-ransomware, in his own words a teenager who studies, it has decided to stop offering its platform now for sale. According to the developer, he had not counted on all the attention that was his creation. Tox is a free kit to experience ransomware.

Like other ransomware encrypts files and then demands ransom Tox to decrypt it. The website which is offered Tox is on the Tor network, and generating the ransomware is free. A few days after the site went live, which was noticed by McAfee and followed a blog posting , making the fame grew. This resulted in more users and more infections with the Tox-ransomware.

According to the developer, however, it was enough and he's not a criminal. In addition, the situation would get out of hand, which he has now decided to quit. In addition, he provides the database encryption keys for sale. If no one buys the database which he will release in a month and the files of victims will be decrypted automatically. Recently decided the creator of the Locker-ransomware them to stop and automatically decrypted while all infected computers.