cryptolocker

[Philquad]

anyone seen this of late



my mate hit me with it to fix
not very nice, turned 100's of his files into a extension .cryptolocker
security experts have a website to upload your files 1 at a time to be decrypted as a fix
or pay the ransom price
luckily i was able to kill the process, good old malwarebytes fixed the rest
but the files were gone, mainly jpg or zip files
the website to decrypt files didnt work once for me

[lsemmens]

From what I know of it, the best insurance agains this nasty is a good, secure, backup and be prepared to lose a few files, even still. Unless, of course you do wish to pay the ransom. It's a particular nasty that I have yet to encounter, and I hope I never have to!

[jwoegerbauer]

CryptoLocker worm poses as a crack for Photoshop and Microsoft Office. Hence never install pirated software.

[shred]

The version I've seen does not add a .cryptolocker extension, but seems to deliberately make it difficult to spot the encrypted files. It even preserves the original created / modified timestamps. Makes it a bastard job to work out which files to restore when multiple drop kick users have chosen to run email attachments from unknown sources - something they have been repeatedly told not to do... and have left cryptolocker running all weekend against a large network file share with over 1 million files.

[Philquad]

yes sorry, the extension was .encrypted not crypolocker ie: mypenis.jpg.encrypted
he got it through a email, not a crack
mainly picture files, not much of anything else