Code Exploit Cyber Security: March 2016

Widely believed to first appear on the internet on September 5 2013, Crypto Locker is a ransomware Trojan virus targeted at computers running Microsoft Windows® operating systems. Primarily propagated through infected email attachments, the virus uses existing botnets when activated to encrypt some types of files stored on the local disk drive and other mounted network drives, using RSA public-key cryptography.