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Law Firm Infected by Cryptolocker Variant

March 16, 2015

California law firm Ziprick and Cramer sent a letter to clients on February 27th advising them that on or around January 25, 2015, the firm was infected by a new variant of the Cryptolocker virus which infected one of their workstations (encrypting its data) and then traveled to the server where data was encrypted on shared folders. The firm indicated that its backup was intact.

Though a ransom demand had not yet been made, the firm said it would not pay any ransom "which would only encourage and fund such criminals in their illegal activities." The firm reported the cyberattack to the FBI and offered clients one year of free credit monitoring.

Legal Tech News reported that CryptoFortress, a new variant, has the ability to encrypt files over network shares even if they are not mapped to a drive letter. This is certainly not good news . . . .

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