CRYPCTB

January 30, 2015
 PLATFORM:

Windows

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  • Threat Type: Trojan

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

The crypto-ransomware CTB (Curve-Tor-Bitcoin) Locker/Critroin surfaced in July 2014. Apart from demanding for ransom and encrypting files, this ransomware uses Tor network to hide its C&C activities.

This ransomware variant may arrive as an attachment to spammed messages.