According to a report in PC Magazine (Issue 12/2007), the data a job seeker on the home PC over the Internet encrypted . were affected Office documents, HTML pages and images . In each data folder only a file named ATTENTION was shown !!!!. txt. When opening the file was listed that the data are encoded with RSA-4096 and payment of $ 300 the key will be sent. On request via the email address has been informed that the money will be transferred via the Western Union. Because they desperately need the data was the sum paid, but the key for decryption has been served-friendly way.
How could this happen?
The job seekers had subscribed to the online job site Monster to the newsletter.
you received a newsletter with a tool annexed . This tool should improve following description in the mail the search results. In the Annex, but a Trojan was hidden, which was active at a click. This made it possible to manipulate the data from the Internet.
I probably would have fallen for it too. And you? Swiss Toni
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