PandaLabs is reporting on a newly discovered ransomware variant [pandasecurity.com]which locks the affected user’s PC, and demands a premium SMS in order to deactivate it.
The ransomware doesn’t have any self-propagation functions and appears to be coming under the form of a typical fake codec that has been affecting users for over a week now. The message (in Russian) demands that the affected user sends an SMS with the pseudo-unique number to the given number in order to receive deactivation code. Read the full story [zdnet.com]
