‘Ransomware’ Targets Japanese Porn Site Users
A Japanese cyber gang has come up with a way to extortmoney off those who pirate adult games: Pay up, or you’ll be embarrassed online.
According to Computerworld, this type of scam is a new one in the world of “ransomware”–the practice of holding hostage a computer system or the data it contains, and then extorting money from its rightful owner.
Trend Micro researchers in Japan and the U.K. analyzed the attack and found that the cyber criminals planted a Trojan onto a Japanese file-sharing service. The malware posed as installers for adult games in the pornographic Hentai genre.
