New gisselvare ask you to infect others in order to unlock the PC-a – ITavisen.en

the Attackers claim the money goes to the civilian population in Syria.

Gisselvare is becoming more and more prevalent the past year and attackers are coming all the time with the advanced methods to trick innocent people.

– Infiser two other PC’s
Researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam has revealed a new version, called “Popcorn Hour”, which gives the users two options: either scroll up with 1 bitcoin, it is equivalent 6591 money with the current course, or infiser two other people.

If you go for the second choice, the two new victims scroll up for you to get back access to your PC. To make things worse, starting gisselvaren to permanently delete files if the victims enter an incorrect decryption key four times.

also Read: New gisselvare send the victims to the fake Windows-technicians.

Claim they help the civilian population
According to MalwareHunterTeam attacker “Popcorn Hour”-gisselvaren the folders Documents, Pictures, Music and folders on the desktop.

the Gang behind the gisselvaren claim they are a bunch of datateknologistudenter in Syria, this according to information sikkerhetsforskerne sits on. The money goes to food, medicine and shelter for the people in the war-torn areas. This information is not verified from other sources.

“We regret strongly that we force you to pay, but it is the only way we can continue to live on,” it says in a note MalwareHunterTeam have got access to.

Source:
Neowin