A UK man has been given a non-custodial sentence this week, after a ransomware infection on his computer led him to report himself to police. The man’s computer held several hundred animal porn images, described in court as “extreme” and “revolting”.
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Notes from SophosLabs: Ransomware with a difference – this one is a true virus!
SophosLabs recently drew our attention to some new ransomware that is both interesting and intriguing. Unusually, this one is a true parasitic virus – it infects other files as well as scrambling them.