By Euro Weekly News Media • 18 November 2011 • 11:54
Image of Giovani Lo Celso. Credit: Wikipedia - By Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89611290
A COMPUTER virus which threatens to destroy information on one’s computer unless a ransom is paid has been discovered in Leon, northern Spain.
The National Institute of Information Technology, INTECO, in Leon, discovered ‘Ransom AN’, a virus which kidnaps the Windows operating system, threatening to destroy the data if €100 is not paid within 48 hours.
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