Starfleet would surely disapprove of a new ransomware making the rounds.<\/p>\n
The Kirk Ransomware<\/em> requires a program named Spock<\/em> to decrypt files encrypted by it, once the victim pays Monero (a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin) to the criminals responsible for the program.<\/p>\n The victim will see a black-and-white computer-generated picture of Kirk and Spock, with the message: “Oh no! The Kirk ransomware has encrypted your files!”<\/p>\n Then the victim receives a message with the heading “Spock to the Rescue!” He’s informed that for a fee, he can get his files decrypted. However, there is a time limit. The longer he waits, the more it will cost and after a month without payment, the files are gone forever.<\/p>\n The ransomware is Troj\/Ransom-EJN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starfleet would surely disapprove of a new ransomware making the rounds. The Kirk Ransomware requires…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4351],"tags":[9197],"class_list":["post-45588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-star-trek","tag-ransomware"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrekRansomware032717.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"General Star Trek<\/a>","tag_info":"General Star Trek","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45590,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45588\/revisions\/45590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}