http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/...754926707.html

"...Ransomware first appeared in May last year with the discovery of Pgpcoder.A, which blackmailed users directly for money after disabling files.
A number of variants followed, and then in March this year a more robust example called Cryzip.A was detected by security company LURHQ. The trojan used malicious code to hijack user files and to encrypt them so they could not be accessed, and then demanded payment in return for the decryption key...."

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