BREAKING: MASSIVE HACK ON AUSTRALIAN COMPUTERS, DEMANDS BITCOIN

There has been a massive hack attack on more than 20,000 Australian computers according to SMH and Stay Smart Online. Reports say that thousands of Australian PCs have been frozen and locked by hackers using a software that encrypt all files on the computers. The malicious and damaging software then asks for a ransom in Bitcoin to unlock the computer.
Australian government agencies are closely monitoring and investigating the hacking of thousands different Australian computers. Multiple individuals have already paid the ransom to recover their files.
The malicious software, also know as the Ransomware, which has infected the Australian computers is called ‘Cryptolocker’ that uses the payment wall ‘CryptoWall’ to demand bitcoins as ransom. The infected computers received the ransomware by clicking on a link in an email supposedly from Australia Post. The files on the computers were then automatically encrypted making them inaccessible and useless to the owners. The ‘Cryptolocker’ asks for a ransom to be paid in bitcoin within a limited timeframe. If the ransom is unpaid by the end of the timeframe, the ransomware threaten to encrypt the files permanently.

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on 17/09/2014.