Security firms McAfee Labs and Symantec have issued warnings that a type of bitcoin-demanding ransomware, CTB-Locker, is now being propagated through spam campaigns.
The malware, the name of which stands for ‘Curve Tor Bitcoin Locker’, was first identified last year. However, the spam distribution approach appears to be a relatively new development.
McAfee published its latest advisory last week, describing CTB-Locker as a form of ransomware that encrypts files on the target computer. Anecdotal evidence suggests […]
