You’ve heard about Trojans concatenating files or encrypting them using regular methods to create a hostage situation, and demand ransom to free the stolen data. This new Ransomware spreading wide and far in Russia, named GpCode.af, goes a step ahead and employs a 330 bit encryption algorithm from RSA to wreck havoc for infected users! Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform that Ransomware named GpCode.af, spreads primarily via spammed emails written in Russian, hence the infection is by and large confined only to the former communist nation so far. Full Story
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