Miscreants have brewed up a variant of the infamous CryptoLocker ransomware that uses worm-like features to spread across removable drives.
The recently discovered CRILOCK-A variant can spread more easily than previous forms of CryptoLocker. The latest nasty is also notable because it comes under previously unseen guises - such as fake Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office software activators that have been seeded on P2P sites, a security blog post from Trend Micro warns.
I have seen people complaining about this at least twice on sites I visit. When I point out that using torrented copies of software might not be a good idea other posters universally amazed. The long and short don't torrent software, don't use unknown USB keys, backup your data, and if available turn on shadow volume copy.
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