TorrentLocker Cracked: Europe in the Sights of Bitcoin Requesting Ransomware

The ESET® research team from Canada has analyzed a widespread case of ransomware generally known as TorrentLocker, which started spreading in early 2014. The latest variant of the malware has infected at least 40,000 systems in the last few months, primarily targeting European countries. ESET’s security research team has prepared an extensive white paper, detailing the investigation and analysis of the malware behavior, and a blog post, which are available on WeLiveSecurity.com.

This ransomware encrypts documents, pictures and other files on users’ devices and requests a ransom to restore access to their files.  Its typical signature is demanding payment solely in crypto-currency—up to 4.081 Bitcoins ($1,500). In addition to infecting 40,000 systems and encrypting more than 280 million documents in Europe, TorrentLocker has also targeted users in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

TorrentLocker Cracked: Europe in the Sights of Bitcoin Requesting Ransomware