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    The CryptoLocker virus first emerged in September 2013 and infected computers through email attachments and an existing botnet, encrypting users' files and demanding ransom payments in bitcoin or prepaid vouchers. While the virus could be removed, encrypted files were nearly impossible to decrypt without paying the ransom by the deadline, though some victims paid without recovering their files. An international operation in May 2014 disrupted the botnet used to spread CryptoLocker, but not before the criminals behind it had extorted an estimated $3 million from victims. The inventor of CryptoLocker was Evgeniy Bogachev.

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    The CryptoLocker virus first emerged in September 2013 and infected computers through email attachments and an existing botnet, encrypting users' files and demanding ransom payments in bitcoin or prepaid vouchers. While the virus could be removed, encrypted files were nearly impossible to decrypt without paying the ransom by the deadline, though some victims paid without recovering their files. An international operation in May 2014 disrupted the botnet used to spread CryptoLocker, but not before the criminals behind it had extorted an estimated $3 million from victims. The inventor of CryptoLocker was Evgeniy Bogachev.

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    The CryptoLocker virus first emerged in September 2013 and infected computers through email attachments and an existing botnet, encrypting users' files and demanding ransom payments in bitcoin or prepaid vouchers. While the virus could be removed, encrypted files were nearly impossible to decrypt without paying the ransom by the deadline, though some victims paid without recovering their files. An international operation in May 2014 disrupted the botnet used to spread CryptoLocker, but not before the criminals behind it had extorted an estimated $3 million from victims. The inventor of CryptoLocker was Evgeniy Bogachev.

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    Name: Karen Joy S.

    Tapiador Section: 10 – Phoenix

    Teacher: Mrs. Julie Anne Apostol Date: December 5, 2023

    CryptoLocker

    The CryptoLocker Virus first surfaced on September 5, 2013 as a


    cyberattack, using a trojan to target computers which ran Microsoft Windows,
    and continued through May of 2014. It infected systems through infected email
    attachments and a pre-existing Gameover ZeuS botnet. The malware would
    encrypt varied files, then display a message saying it would decrypt them for a
    ransom–bitcoin or pre-paid cash voucher–by a deadline date. If the deadline was
    missed, the threat would grow worse and the ransom cost would rise.

    The virus was easily removed, but the files themselves were virtually
    impossible to decrypt. Some victims paid the ransom and recovered their files,
    while others paid, yet their files remained encrypted. In May 2014, Operation
    Tovar was launched, which defeated the Gameover ZeuS botnet used to spread
    the malware. It’s estimated that the cybercriminals behind the CryptoLocker Virus
    extorted $3 million from its victims.

    Inventor of the CryptoLocker Virus:

    Evgeniy Bogachev

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