New strains of ransomware are created with relatively high frequency, so it’s no wonder many strains don’t make headline worthy news. But a new version has caught a particularly large amount of attention recently. The strain, a CryptoWall4 and CryptXXX variant, claims that the money it collects from it’s victims will be donated for a “children charity”. Whether this is just a way to collect the ransom more easily from it’s victims is unknown. Read more at Heimdal Security.
