The latter is the approach taken
by cybercriminals with a recent email barrage that is spreading a nasty new strain of the notorious Locky ransomware.
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The room is chilled to a steady 60 degrees and filled
with rack - mounted monitors, blinking red lights, a squat supercomputer, and three «spidering machines» that crawl through the Internet, quietly spooling data from the shadowy digital realm inhabited
by terrorists, hackers, and
cybercriminals.
The report released
by Ledger states that the attack is carried out when a Ledger customer uses a computer infected
with malware, allowing the
cybercriminal to interfere
with the addresses that the cryptocurrency is intended for.
Over $ 1 million worth of Ethereum tokens has been stolen
by cybercriminals posing as Bee Token, a cryptocurrency startup
with hopes of revolutionizing the home sharing industry
by way of the blockchain.
Through the efforts made in the past and the ones being made now, we can see the overwhelming need for decentralized services that are not operated
by a central authority and are thus considered more secure as they do not provide
cybercriminals with centralized points of failure that can be easily compromised.
For years,
cybercriminals have been extorting victims
by locking their computers
with malware.