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Ransomware leads to 'animal abuse images' confession

article published on 19 May, 2015

A man turned himself in to police in the UK to confess to possessing sexual images involving animals after being threatened by ransomware on his PC. The 61-year old living in Scotland had encountered a run-of-the-mill ransomware infection on his Windows PC in 2013. Unlike more advanced ransomware that uses cryptography to wall off access to files on infected PCs until a ransom is paid, ... [ read the full article ]

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calum3636

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20. May 2015 @ 00:57

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Considering people have already committed suicide because of ransomeware the people behind it should hand their heads in shame for having blood on their hands.
This is not a victimless crime n if they are caught should be given the same sentences as murderers.
IMHO......
As a computer techie, I have seen first hand the distress this software can cause n it is not pretty.....

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gbswales

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20. May 2015 @ 01:23

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The problem of highlighting this case is that some ignorant people will look at it as a kind of justice in much the same way that reducing child pornography is used as an excuse for enforcing anti privacy laws!

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calum3636

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20. May 2015 @ 03:03

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Agreed, they should highlight the fact innocent people are getting hurt by this sort of ransomeware, it is not like scamming someone with scam letters, people are being unfairly targeted by legit looking pages and computers are getting locked out with this ransomeware, the wording on these pages are what is having the detriment effect on people using words like paedophilia n zoophillia, etc,
People who have No or little experience of computers are horrified by what they are allegedly being accused of...
It goes to show the scammers have No care for the innocent people they are targeting by putting this crap on the web...
And more effort should be put into catching them than reducing someone sharing a few films here n there.....

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Dela

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20. May 2015 @ 13:12

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Originally posted by calum3636:
Agreed, they should highlight the fact innocent people are getting hurt by this sort of ransomeware, it is not like scamming someone with scam letters, people are being unfairly targeted by legit looking pages and computers are getting locked out with this ransomeware, the wording on these pages are what is having the detriment effect on people using words like paedophilia n zoophillia, etc,
People who have No or little experience of computers are horrified by what they are allegedly being accused of...
It goes to show the scammers have No care for the innocent people they are targeting by putting this crap on the web...
And more effort should be put into catching them than reducing someone sharing a few films here n there.....

Agreed, that's what I tried to do at the bottom of the article because this story has gotten some traction and is being presented in some cases as justice of a kind, but of course there is still the fact that ransomware is extremely damaging. In this case, sure it resulted in a man admitting a crime to police and the nature of the crime of bizarre to most people, but yes the malware infection that kicked off this chain of events is no less serious, no less immoral, etc regardless of the outcome.

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