In the online network a new variant of the virus was spotted, extorting money, entitled – Data Keeper. The result of this virus extortion became noticeable within 2 days after, he appeared in the Internet space. With this virus encrypts files on a personal computer of the potential victim, then begins ransom, which must be paid in cryptocurrency.
To become a participant in the scheme, You need to register on the Internet site, which combines cybercriminals. The benefit is to obtain a certain percentage of all computers, whose owners have paid for, to re-use them.
of the company's experts believe MalwareHunter, that file encryption is performed using a special binary system – AES и RSA-4096. But this malware encrypts not only the files and documents. With the help of virus cybercriminals cover available network connections. Interesting, that the virus does not leave the special extensions of infected files, and it slows down the process of calculating the affected documents.
