CRYPCTB
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.