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Smut page ransomware Trojan ransacks browsers -Pay or it'll display
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 10:36:18 PM »
Smut page ransomware Trojan ransacks browsers
Pay or it'll display

By John Leyden

 27th July 2009 14:44 GMT

Russian cybercrooks have come up with a variant of ransomware scams, which works by displaying an invasive advert for online smut in users' browsers that victims are extorted to pay to remove.

The Ransompage Trojan will display a persistent ad inline on every page that a surfer on an infected Windows machine visits. The ad for a pornographic website covers parts of the original webpage, making it even more annoying. Accompanying Russian-language text instructs victims that in order to remove the ad - and gain access to an online smut site in the process - they need to send a premium rate text message.

details - theregister - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/27/ransompage_trojan/

 

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