21st Computer Viruses

 The ICE Cyber Crime Center Screen is an infamous and constantly changing computer virus that causes lots of problems for people whose systems it manages to infect; and the routes of infection are many. An attachment on an e-mail, opening an infected site, downloading a bad program, any of these can result in you staring at the ICE screen.

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GameOver Zeus is Trojan horse computer malware that runs on computers running under versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. While it is capable of being used to carry out many malicious and criminal tasks, it is often used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. It is also used to install the CryptoLocker ransomware.

Once inside a computer, GameOver Zeus quietly tracks each keystroke. When the software detects someone logging into a bank account, it records the password. Armed with that information, hackers log in and drain the account. Often they stole more than $1 million from businesses, prosecutors said, with at least one theft exceeding $6 million.

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CryptoLocker is a ransomware trojan which targets computers running Microsoft Windows.

A CryptoLocker attack may come from various sources; one such is disguised as a legitimate email attachment. When activated, the malware encrypts certain types of files stored on local and mounted network drives using RSApublic-key cryptography, with the private key stored only on the malware's control servers. The malware then displays a message which offers to decrypt the data if a payment (through either Bitcoin or a pre-paid voucher) is made by a stated deadline, and threatens to delete the private key if the deadline passes.

CryptoLocker spreads through emails that look like they are from legitimate businesses, including fake tracking notices from FedEx and U.P.S. Once inside a...