Ransomware Attacking Web Servers
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 11/26/2015 09:54 AM
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According to a new blogpost from Malwarebytes, ransomware is now going after Linux web servers.
Already a scourge on personal computers, this is significant because these servers are depositories capable of not only hosting the malware but distributing it as well.
As far back as August, Malwarebytes has found three variants on Linux server ransomware have been identified. The ransomware was originally demanding $ 50, but has now upped the ante to $999.
It would appear that the origin of the ransomware is probably Russia as the malware author embedded a message in Russian with an apology to those in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States and offered to de-encrypt for free those sites caught up in the campaign.
Source: SCMagazine
Already a scourge on personal computers, this is significant because these servers are depositories capable of not only hosting the malware but distributing it as well.
As far back as August, Malwarebytes has found three variants on Linux server ransomware have been identified. The ransomware was originally demanding $ 50, but has now upped the ante to $999.
It would appear that the origin of the ransomware is probably Russia as the malware author embedded a message in Russian with an apology to those in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States and offered to de-encrypt for free those sites caught up in the campaign.
Source: SCMagazine
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