“These shakedowns are blurring the lines between online and offline fraud, and they’re giving new computer users a crash course in modern-day cybercrime,” Krebs said, partly due to the rise of the anonymous online currency Bitcoin. According to Symantec’s August Intelligence report, ransomware with a crypto-style has increased by more than 700%. At the beginning of the year, 1.2 percent of ransomware detections were le-encrypting versions; by the end of August, that number had risen to 31 percent. Ransomware, most notably the Cryptolocker malware and its many variations, is one of the main tools used by cybercriminals. It encrypts a user’s files and demands payment of a ransom, usually in Bitcoins, in exchange for the key to unlock the files. However, Cryptolocker
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