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Comparative analysis of various ransomware virii
2008
Journal in Computer Virology
The word ransomware and the associated phenomenon appeared something like 3 years ago, around the year 2005. It shed light on a specific class of malwares which demand a payment in exchange for a stolen functionality. Most widespread ransomwares make an intensive use of file encryption as an extortion mean. Basically, they encrypt various files on victim's hard drives before asking for a ransom to get the files decrypted. Security related media and some antivirus vendors quickly brandished this
doi:10.1007/s11416-008-0092-2
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