Tens of thousands of Europeans have ‘ransom’ is paid, after their computer was infected with ransomware, which seemed to have of the police. That treasure the European Cybercrime Centre of Europol threat assessment, which is the Tuesday, has been released.
According to the European Cybercrime Centre is the use of malware in the last two years has increased and are in the EU, millions of computers infected. In addition, the organization on the rise of ransomware. It encrypts the malware, sometimes the user’s files and “ransom” be paid to regain access to the data. Frequently, there are instances where an alert window is displayed which shows that a user’s illegal actions carried out, such as visiting a website with child pornography or the downloading of illegal content. This is often a logo of the police is shown.
The research department of Interpol estimates that tens of thousands of Europeans who had to deal with ransomware have the money paid to cyber criminals. According to Interpol, is the use of ransomware in the meantime a miljoenenbusiness become. Not only would the manufacture of the malware becoming easier by the rise of do-it-yourself packages, even the chance of being caught would be small. Interpol asserts that this is the result of the fragmented approach in the various jurisdictions.
To reverse the trend to cooperation and information exchange between law enforcement agencies and the business community to fight this form of cybercrime can be promoted, the opinion of Interpol. Also need to internet users more and better information about prevention, the dangers of malware and how to deal with a contamination.
