'Ransomware' extortion program uses fake legal threat

Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 04:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Fraud investigators are warning of a new variant of a malicious software "Trojan" that extorts money from users by claiming to deliver a message from CSIS or the RCMP.

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