{"id":9719,"date":"2013-12-13T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2878948"},"modified":"2013-12-13T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T21:15:09","slug":"recovering-from-cryptolocker-with-cloud-backup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/recovering-from-cryptolocker-with-cloud-backup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from Cryptolocker with Cloud Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, a new type of trojan ransomware, CryptoLocker, started making the rounds by way of email attachments and links on infected webpages. It won&#8217;t destroy anything on your computers, just encrypt the data so you the user can&#8217;t access it.<br \/>\nOnce the files are encrypted, a screen pops up directing the user to pay a ransom of $100 to $300 (or two Bitcoins) within three days to regain access to the files. Beyond the 72-hour deadline, the ransom rises to 10 Bitcoins (About $3000).<br \/>\nCryptoLocker itself is not difficult to remove, the damage comes from the encryption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2878948\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, a new type of trojan ransomware, CryptoLocker, started making the rounds by way of email attachments and links on infected webpages. It won&#8217;t destroy anything on your computers, just encrypt the data so you the user can&#8217;t access it.<br \/>\nOnce &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}