Security News > 2016 > November > Telecrypt ransomware uses Telegram for command and control (Help Net Security)

Telecrypt, a newly spotted piece of crypto ransomware that uses Telegram’s communication protocol to deliver the decryption key to the crooks, is targeting Russian-speaking users. The malware encrypts Word and Excel files, JPG, JPEG and PNG image files, database files (DBF), and PDFs. “Depending on its configuration, the Trojan may add the extension ‘.Xcri’ to the encrypted files, or leave the extension unchanged,” Kaspersky Lab researchers explained. “A list of encrypted files is saved to … More →

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