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Crypt0L0cker Ransomware is Back with Campaigns Targeting Europe

March 1st 2017  By Lawrence Abrams

 

The Crypt0L0cker ransomware, otherwise known as Torrentlocker or Teerac, was a common ransomware infection that mostly targeted Australia and European countries in 2014. Towards the middle of 2015, though, this ransomware slowly started dying off to the point that it was hardly distributed anymore.

 

Fast forward to the beginning of February 2017 where we are now seeing Crypt0L0cker making a strong come back and targeting European countries once again.

 

Crypt0L0cker Campaigns Targeting European Countries

 

Over the past few days, I have been receiving a lot of requests for help in decrypting files encrypted by Crypt0L0cker. To see if there was a resurgence in activity, I checked the ID-Ransomware site and saw that towards the end of January Crypt0L0cker went from a small amount of submissions to the their site a day, to close to a 100. Then in February things started picking up even more with some days having over 400 submissions related to Crypt0L0cker.

 

           Europe Telemetry Map for Crypt0L0cker

 

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