In fact, one of the earliest pieces of malware that was written specifically to make money, rather than simply to prove a point, was the AIDS Information Trojan of 1989. Malware that encrypts your data and tries to sell it back to you, or else, is not new. Sophos Anti-Virus detects it by the name Troj/Ransom-ACP, because that’s exactly what it does: holds your files to ransom.
SophosLabs has asked us to remind you about a destructive malware threat that calls itself CryptoLocker.
