Users without dependable backups had the option of paying the ransom and hoping that those behind the infection were honest enough to really decrypt the impacted files or simply acknowledging their data as lost at the time of the original outbreak. While the infection is not difficult to eradicate, the data that have been infected stay encrypted.
It then demands a ransom to decrypt or retrieve the system owner's impacted files If you don't, your private key will be lost. It looks for particular file types to encrypt using RSA public-key cryptography after being downloaded and activated and then delivers the private key to specified remote sites. Infected email attachments or a botnet propagates CryptoLocker. It originally appeared on the Internet in 2013 and was designed to infect PCs running Windows. CryptoLocker is a ransomware Trojan that supposedly encrypts files on a victim's computer and demands a fee to retrieve the data.
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