{"id":9424,"date":"2013-01-11T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2013-01-11T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:58:43","slug":"ransomware-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/01\/11\/ransomware-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a call earlier today from a friend because his computer has been locked by &#8220;The United States Department of Justice&#8221;.\u00a0 In addition to that &#8220;The United States Department of Justice&#8221; demands computer owner to pay $300 to unlock the computer &#8220;avoid other legal consequences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, The United States Department of Justice does not run such operation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ransomware_(malware)\" target=\"_blank\">ransomware<\/a>. It replaces Windows 7 shell with its own executable file. Booting the computer to plain &#8220;Safe Mode&#8221; or&#8221; Safe Mode with Networking&#8221; will load the malicious executable. Instead, boot to &#8220;Safe Mode with Command Prompt&#8221; and manually remove the malicious software.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll describe what I did in the next post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ransomware.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ransomware\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ransomware.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a call earlier today from a friend because his computer has been locked by &#8220;The United States Department of Justice&#8221;.\u00a0 In addition to that &#8220;The United States Department of Justice&#8221; demands computer owner to pay $300 to unlock the computer &#8220;avoid other legal consequences&#8221;. First and foremost, The United States Department of Justice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/01\/11\/ransomware-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ransomware, Part 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,3,4],"tags":[1966,2472,2511,2648,936,3039,3216,3218],"class_list":["post-9424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-journal","category-news","tag-malware","tag-ransomware","tag-resources","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting","tag-windows","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2s0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}