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Ransomware offers customer support via chat (Help Net Security)
2016-02-19 16:03

PadCrypt, a newly discovered piece of ransomware, offers the victims the possibility to chat with the criminals behind the scheme. This ransomware, as many before it, presents the standard...

Disabled PadCrypt Ransomware Includes Live Chat, Uninstaller (Threatpost)
2016-02-16 12:00

A new piece of crypto-ransomware called PadCrypt comes with a live chat feature that victims can use to interact with the attackers about ransom payments and other information.

VTech data breach gets worse: Children's pictures and chat logs were also compromised (Help Net Security)
2015-12-01 09:36

The hacker who breached VTech's customer database and shared with the world the fact that the exploit was so easy anyone could do it (SQL injection), has found additional critical user data stored on ...