2014 Ransomware year. Bitcoin will be hit
 

CryptoLocker is a ransomware that encrypts certain types of files stored on local and mounted network drives using RSA public-key cryptography. They request 0,3 btc to decrypt files.
Over 250000 computers have been affected in about 3 months.
This is the first wave. People have lost their data. People are angry.
Authorities will be forced to do something, and they will target the money flow. They will target Bitcoin since it is used to collect the ransom.
Silk Road was left to operate as long as there was only drug selling. They liked the idea that dealers will operate online because the evidence was there, online. No detective work, just print files and make captures.
They destroyed silk road when assassinates were ordered there.

Now when Bitcoin is used by the criminals who target voting citizens, the pressure will be there to take actions. And fighting cyber terrorism will be their new motto.

So be safe and put your important files on DVDs.

What's a DVD?..

I am joking, but seriously, my neighbor just bought a top of the range laptop - With no optical drive.....

They are going the way of the floppy...

From what I understand the assassination was ordered by Dread Pirate Roberts independently of Silk Road. Not via the site.

I have a working pc that can read tapes. It runs BASIC from audio tapes... I have it sice `80
Floppy, cd, dvd no problem. There will be old computers with cd/dvd for a long time...

One of my first computing triumphs was when I brought home a fancy Tandy Data Recorder :1orglaugh

That was a LONG time ago...

Hope all these currencies crash & burn as I'm tired of hearing about them. :2 cents:

op has zero idea re: what he's talking about.

unless they encrypt my porn they wont get a dime from me. Everything else is in the cloud.

Virus scans for network drives. Can also hit servers/clouds...Everything that can be rewrite is in danger.

Fuck virtual stuff....i like only real!

I personally know people making millions every month on CryptoLockers.

Only they used to extort for real money, not btc.

So OP is pretty spot on.

They do not only accept Bitcoin They accept Money Pak, Ukash, Cashu and guess what it wont affect Bitcoin at all. I should imagine the people who have Bitcoins are pretty tech savy and woudlent even bother paying anyway, so the payments via Bitcoins will be very small compared to the other payment options they offer.

The silk road was taken down and now there is another one in its place.



http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-thr...er-ransomware/

If you actually read up about this cryptolocker crap, not that many people have even paid money to them considering the amount of computers its infected.

Think about it. If someone has Bitcoin on their computer it would make more sense just to steal the contents of their wallet.

no.

the thread topic and op are not spot on

this. is. wrong.

moreover, bitcoin to pay the ransom is far down the list of how the ransom is actually being paid, your cryptolocker friends neglected to tell you that.

Cryptolocker is just the begining.
They recommend paying with btc.

Now that this type of attack was a financial success, there will be other following. And they will relay on btc because is easier to setup = no cost to them to accept btc.

The stories about old ladies loosing their computer to this hackers and trying to figure out haw btc work can be a delight for media.
Not to mention that an US police station has paid the ransom with btc.

This type of attack will continue and will target also online business and servers. This is just the beginning.

Michele Spagnuolo discusses identifying Bitcoin addresses controlled by the CryptoLocker threat actors and tracing potential ransom payments made to those addresses. Figure 12 graphs the total number of ransoms paid per day (in gray) along with the total value of those payments in U.S. dollars on the day they were received (in blue).

http://www.secureworks.com/assets/im...olocker.12.png

total bitcoins acquired via crytpolocker ramsom = 1,216 total BTC, the vast majority were outside the usa.

http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-thr...er-ransomware/

Please stop trolling. We all know you are a btc fanboy. BTC will replace gold and every government will start a war just to have 1 BTC.You are happy now. You can go to sleep happy?

This is about the danger of this new attacks ant that they are relying on anonymous currencies, like btc.

lolz. your premise that the us will target btc due to cryptolocker is not based on reality.

just like you claim what you did re: silk road, it's funny. not as funny as saying back shit up on dvd though. it's all quite funny.

the simple fact is usa ransoms are not being paid out in bitcoin to any significant degree.

http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-thr...er-ransomware/

~Although early versions of CryptoLocker included numerous payment options, the threat actors now only accept MoneyPak and Bitcoin. The Bitcoin option was originally marketed as the "most cheap option" [sic] for ransom payment based on the difference between the $300 USD ransom and the market rate of Bitcoins. .~

http://labs.bitdefender.com/2013/10/...et-per-victim/

Cryptolocker Ransomware Makes a Bitcoin Wallet per Victim
If successful, it receives from the server a (presumably freshly-generated) public key and a corresponding Bitcoin address. These are added to the registry in registry keys of the form

http://www.zdnet.com/cryptolockers-c...in-7000024579/

In research for this article ZDnet traced four bitcoin addresses posted (and re-posted) in forums by multiple CryptoLocker victims, showing movement of 41,928 BTC between October 15 and December 18.

Based on the current Bitcoin value of $661, the malware ninjas have moved $27,780,000 through those four addresses alone - if CryptoLocker cashes out today.

Cryptolocker now use 1 address per infected pc.
From only 4 addresses they got 41,928 BTC, before starting using this new tactics.
So stop trolling please, you bring nothing to the forum.

again, us authorities won't be targeting/killing/stopping btc due to a malware attack. not sure how you even think btc could be stopped this way.

not to mention that makes zero sense. it appears you don't understand cryptocurrencies. i'll explain it another way. by targeting btc to stop this malware, would only make it more difficult for the ransomed victims to pay, it would not stop the attacks, because why? because they still have moneypak, etc. which accepts all sorts of currencies, that's why.

you're prolly not going to get that. your attempt to make this a conspiracy is funny though.

Much troll?

again, the topic and this sort of comment just simply are not based in reality. "authorities" can't target the money flow. piriod. you actually think that the money police will make btc illegal, and by being illegal people with kidnapped computer can't pay and that will stop the malware?

:Oh crap


:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

The cryptolocker was originally aimed at businesses only, which did not work out to well for them.

"It added that the cyber-criminals responsible were now targeting home internet users after initially focusing on professionals.

The firm has provided a list of net domains that it suspects have been used to spread the code, but warned that more are being generated every day.

Ransomware has existed since at least 1989, but this latest example is particularly problematic because of the way it makes files inaccessible"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25506020

This will just die like all the other scams have in the past.