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June 3, 2013 01:00 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fzOhwAAZwZE/story01.htm
How ransomware creeps cash out theirpayments
Brian Krebs offers an in-depth look at a "cashout" service used by ransomware crooks to get money from their victims. Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts your personal files and demands that you pay a ransom for the key to decrypt them; the crooks who run the attacks demand that their victims buy prepaid MoneyPak cards and send the numbers for them by way of payment.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fzOhwAAZwZE/story01.htm
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