The appearance of ransomware infections are to increase significantly during the year 2013. Ransomware firstly infects targeted computer, encrypts key data and requires high ransom to provide a user with decryption key. Some already investigated cases showed that $3.000 for a single key is not an exemption, especially while the ransomware blackmails users of sending their sensitive data to police. Such a malware is hard to disclose for users and contemporary statistics augur alarming trend in this sector of cyber crime. Further reading here.
Ransomware infections expected to massively improve and infect in 2013
07. 12. 2012