Computer malware A county sheriff’s office in Tennessee paid a $500 ransom in bitcoin after it became the victim of a cyberattack this week.
As reported by Nashville-based WTVF-TV , the Dickson County Sheriff’s Office ran afoul of a bug known as Cryptowall, a derivative of infamous ransomware CryptoLocker .
Cryptowall is a Trojan horse program that, once inside a computer, encrypts its contents and triggers demands for a payment in bitcoin. The firm’s estimates suggest that […]
